Australia is the world’s largest producer of the essential battery component, and it exports almost all of its output to China. Government and industry are placing bets that they can alter that. Tons of a lithium ore slurry are moving through the pipes of Pilbara Minerals’ massive processing facility, which towers over the red earth […]
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Although economic ties between China and Australia have slowly begun to mend, Canberra is unlikely to abandon its complaints with Beijing at the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell. Farrell claimed that an Australian lobster company had submitted an import application that had not been turned down by Chinese authorities
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Australia will invest $1 billion on high-tech sea mines to defend its territorial waters from Chinese and other possible enemies’ naval incursions. Following a report by Nine Newspapers, the federal government today confirmed the significant defense expenditure on underwater weapons. Self-contained explosive devices called sea mines are submerged in the water and used to disable
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The A$30 billion ($21 billion) Sun Cable plan, which aims to pipe solar power from Australia to Singapore, has been one of the world’s most ambitious renewable energy projects, but it has now entered administration following a rumored conflict between its two major billionaire backers. Sun Cable announced today (Wednesday) that it “has made the
The state government of Queensland has committed cash to “reinvigorate” an abandoned facility that was once among the richest gold mines in the world. The Mount Morgan gold mine in central Queensland was formerly one of the biggest in the world, but it has been abandoned and polluted with acid water since 1990. With intentions
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On Monday, the United States and South Korea started one of their biggest joint military air drills, with hundreds of jets from both sides simulating attacks around the clock which will last for more than a week. The U.S. Air Force said in a statement last week that the operation, codenamed Vigilant Storm, will go
France recently recalled its ambassadors from the USA and Australia due to Australian government’s decision to cancel the agreement with France on the purchase of conventional French submarines, which it replaced with a new agreement on the purchase of American nuclear submarines. In order to modernize its defense force Canberra allocated 270 billion Australian dollars
The massacre of 50 Muslims in New Zealand and the wounding of numerous others, including women and children, by the Australian born and bred terrorist and white supremacist Brandon Tarrant, shocked the entire world last month. Innocent worshipers were murdered in cold blood when they were most vulnerable and defenseless – when they were about
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