Madeleine King (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Rare earths from Eneabba, another site I visited last week, will be mined and refined here in Australia, supported by the production tax credits that this government introduced in legislation and passed last term.

Lithium is set to also benefit from production tax credits, which some have not agreed to. Liontown's Kathleen Valley lithium project, which I opened earlier this month, an hour from Leinster in the northern Gold Fields, is the world's first underground lithium mine. It is powered by 80 per cent renewable energy and includes the largest wind turbines in the country. That's a lithium mine powered by renewable energy. So while this government will support such endeavours in clean energy, we see those opposite, led by two former deputy prime ministers in particular, trying to scuttle the Leader of the Nationals as we focus on clean energy in this country.

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