QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE › United States-Australia Framework for Securing of Supply in the Mining and Processing of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths
Senator DAVID POCOCK (Australian Capital Territory—Independent ACT Whip) (14:49): We've heard the same argument with gas—jobs, jobs, jobs—and yet what I hear from people is that they can't actually find workers to fill jobs. When it comes to offshore LNG, Treasury tells us that we haven't had a single cent of petroleum resource rent tax. We've now got critical minerals. We look at Norway, with trillions of dollars in a sovereign wealth fund, and it sounds like the Albanese government doesn't actually have a plan to effectively tax critical minerals, despite you saying this is a huge part of our economic prosperity.