Toward Programme
Clean Energy Must Avoid the Mistake of Overdependence
Why it matters
The article directly addresses Australia's energy sovereignty risk (Pillar 1) and decoupling imperative (Pillar 5) by highlighting the strategic trap of swapping Middle Eastern oil dependence for Chinese clean-energy-supply dependence. Australia's transition to renewables and critical minerals processing must avoid recreating vulnerability under a different supplier; this framing supports strategic resource autonomy and industrial resilience.
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