Episode 84
Queensland Senator Susan McDonald: The Crisis in Australia's Mineral Smelting Industry
The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast · Dan Ryan
August 15, 202549m 35s
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Show Notes
My guest today is Queensland Senator Susan McDonald.
Today we discuss:
- The serious crisis in Australia's mining processing and smelting industry with potentially 70,000 jobs at risk
- Whether the key plants, and manufacturing more generally in Australia, can survive so long as we continue with "net zero" and other related carbon dioxide emission commitments
- Whether we also need a reassessment of trade policy with China and others in order to reboot manufacturing
- Her views on the potential for expansion of gas, critical minerals, and "green steel".
- What Australian centre-right should learn from the new American administration
And much more