Speakers: Speaker 23, Senator Susan McDonald, Unknown Speaker

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Senator Susan McDonald

>> There's been recent reporting in the AFR on the need to continue divers diversifying our critical mineral sector to partners outside of the United States. Can the department outline any specific attempts or relationships it has with jurisdictions outside of the

Speaker 23

Thank you, Senator Mari Yman, head of division minerals and resources. Um, Australia has a number of key partnerships outside of the United States. Um, we have in particular um relationships with the Canadians. Um, Minister King when she was in um Toronto earlier this year, early this year signed um a and a joint um declaration of intent to cooperate with the Canadian government on opportunities for um cooperation between our countries as producer nations of critical minerals. We share many um aspects of um ex expertise and um uh experience in both producing and regulating um production of resources. Um Australia also has deep partnerships with Japan particularly around the export of traditional commodities but increasingly interest in uh the critical minerals used in the Japanese economy for the high-tech industry sector. um also expressed through various high level agreements between the governments um also uh relationships with the Republic of Korea um around critical minerals also build off of our traditional commodity exports um also in uh to support the high-tech industries of the Republic of Korea. Um there are relationships with the UK government which um speak to our um increasingly deepening defense ties and relationships with Orcus and the future um of critical minerals in our supply chains. Um there are other countries that are I'm going to yes the European Union um and of course uh G7 um as a recent um inductee to the G7 plus critical minerals partnership Australia joined uh that earlier this year and has been working closely with G7 in a plurilateral forum.