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House Standing Committee on Primary Industries - Dubbo, NSW

18 May 2026

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Contents updated on 21 Oct 2026

The chair opens the Dubbo critical minerals hearing, outlines parliamentary procedures, and regional councils present their mining profiles, emerging critical minerals prospects and the fiscal implications of NSW rate‑capping, VPAs and historic mining dependence.

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Hearing opening and council mining context

15:03

Hearing opening and committee introductions

15:03

Council overviews — mining profiles and emerging critical minerals

17:21

Lachlan Shire — rating caps and need for VPAs

20:09

Parkes and Cobar — mining history, growth and exposure to impacts

23:30

Bland Shire — gold mining, solar projects and structured VPAs

26:47

Committee focus — VPAs’ fiscal role and inquiry priorities

29:03

Regulatory capacity, approvals coordination and mining impacts

31:42

Assessment capacity, referral agencies and infrastructure investment

31:42

Approvals delays, time pressure and regulatory coordination

37:18

Royalties, FAGs, GST shares and targeted mining-region funding

43:48

Cobar and others — cumulative impacts, infrastructure deficits and energy constraints

48:30

Social licence, workforce constraints and grant design

51:04

Social licence — community engagement models and benefit sharing

51:04

Workforce, skills pathways, local content and housing constraints

59:44

Regional development funding, contestability and enabling infrastructure

01:04:19

Grant design, last‑mile housing support and FIFO in the census

01:10:35

Strategic funding, intergovernmental coordination and council session close

01:23:14

National strategic significance framing and non-contestable mining-region funds

01:23:14

Broader regional contribution, conservation policy and water infrastructure gaps

01:34:49

ASM session opening, Dubbo Project and global value chain

02:10:03

ASM session opening and Dubbo Project mine-to-metal model

02:10:03

Global value chain role — Korean metals plant and allied markets

02:17:28

Value-adding in Australia and limits to onshoring processing

02:20:54

Project financing, regulatory certainty, infrastructure and skills pipeline

02:24:45

Why Dubbo has taken decades — funding, market risk and community sentiment

02:24:45

Approvals experience and need for streamlined, certain regulation

02:29:24

Infrastructure access, common-user assets and Commonwealth’s role

02:31:50

First Nations engagement, FPIC principles and STEM workforce pipeline

02:34:38

Closing discussion — university links, urgency and hearing conclusion

02:40:00

House Standing Committee on Primary Industries - Dubbo, NSW

18 May 2026

House Standing Committee on Primary Industries Tue, 19 May 2026 Australian Parliament

15:03 - 15:49

Speaker 6

Thank you. Good morning, everyone. I declare open the public hearing of the Standing Committee on Primary Industries' inquiry into factors shaping social license and economic development outcomes in critical minerals projects across Australia here in Dubbo. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land from which we meet today and pay respect to elders past and present of the indigenous peoples all across Australia. This hearing will be audio broadcast and the transcript of proceedings will be published on the Parliament's website.

And I'll now invite members of our committee to introduce themselves And what we might do just to keep things simple, I know Ms. Ash Amber Heberha is joining us. So Ash, I might ask you to commence the introduction please.

15:51 - 15:58

Speaker 19

Thanks, Chair. It's Ashaan Behavahar, the Federal Member for Barton. I'm currently phoning in from Sydney. Thanks, Chair.

15:58 - 16:11

Speaker 6

Thank you so much. Meryl Swanson, Member for Paterson, which is broadly in the New South Wales Hunter, a couple of hours north of Sydney, but I do stretch from Maitland out to beautiful Port Stephens and committee chair. Thank you.

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