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Queensland aluminium smelter receives $2bn taxpayer subsidy to remain viable
The government has announced the commonwealth and Queensland governments will each chip in $1bn to Rio Tinto’s Boyne aluminium smelter in Central Queensland, to keep it viable into the future.
With a considerable public investment, we are catalysing a fourfold private investment that will build out the renewable energy grid and keep thousands of good regional jobs in Central Queensland.
What he has suggested in drilling the Great Australian Bight was something that failed when he was the minister for resources in the former government … This is a serious challenge that Australians are facing right now and we need serious solutions, not fake ideas from fake politicians like Matt Canavan.
We’re not going to try to hoodwink Australians to think there are simple solutions by drilling in the Great Australian Bight when we know those companies walked away from those proposals only a few years ago.
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