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House Standing Committee on Primary Industries

10 September 2026

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The committee opens the formal hearing, sets procedural parameters and then hears expert evidence on critical minerals governance, social licence as a public governance outcome, and international case studies, followed by an extended Q&A on regulatory architecture, regional frameworks and federal–state responsibilities.

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Hearing opening and expert evidence on critical minerals governance

15:49

Hearing opening and procedural framework

15:49

Opening of hearing — inquiry scope and procedure

15:49

Expert witnesses — identities and institutional affiliations

17:13

Committee members introduce themselves; procedural warnings

20:39

Critical minerals governance — research findings and social licence

21:55

Research consortium — mandate and Australian governance gaps

21:55

Civil society principles and social licence as public governance

25:04

Governance recommendations and initial stakeholder testimony

28:21

Key recommendations — governance, regional planning, independent research

28:21

Chilean civil society — governance gaps in lithium expansion

32:31

Chair: member introduction and scope of social licence Q&A

38:06

Committee Q&A on regional social licence and critical minerals

43:26

Burnell: coordination across levels — regional social licence

43:26

National standards and federal role in critical minerals governance

47:04

Landry: Chile’s lithium strategy and indigenous rights

50:02

Farley: critical minerals rush, timing and competitiveness

53:53

Clarifying regional social licence framework; session close

58:57

Bingman Landcare panel — social licence and community impacts

01:03:01

Panel introduction and opening statement on social licence

01:03:01

Bingman Catchment Landcare panel introduced

01:03:01

Bingman Landcare opening — critique of transactional social licence

01:06:01

Community experiences of corporate power and social licence

01:15:08

Deputy Chair: request for lived experience — Nielsen on corporate influence

01:15:08

Burnell: funding communities for informed engagement

01:20:32

Clarifying private costs and multi‑level government failures

01:24:02

Farley: recognising power imbalance and community agency

01:26:01

Emotional distress, solastalgia and lead‑mine risks

01:28:16

Cook: committee reflections and Bingman impacts

01:33:03

Cook: committee response and social licence concepts

01:33:03

Deputy Chair: cumulative project impacts on region

01:35:10

First Nations rights in critical minerals projects

01:55:14

Hearing reconvened and witness opening statement

01:55:14

Mabo Centre and NNTC witnesses introduced

01:55:14

NNTC opening — traditional owners as rights holders

01:57:28

Commonwealth role and native title outcomes in critical minerals

02:01:57

Chair: enabling First Nations co‑design and co‑investment

02:01:57

Landry: performance of native title in mining benefits

02:07:18

First Nations engagement, social licence and session close

02:09:52

Farley: traditional owners as project assets

02:09:52

Cook: defining good process and lifecycle FPIC

02:18:03

Chair: best and worst practice in social licence

02:24:06

Mabo Centre and NNTC evidence concluded

02:29:39

Committee hearing opening and project context

02:35:17

Hearing opening and witness project overview

02:35:17

Cleveland Bay Chemical witnesses introduced and sworn

02:35:17

Opening statement — fluorine project at Lansdown

02:37:44

Government engagement, social licence and federal support

02:39:28

Committee: government engagement and processor social licence

02:39:28

Australia‑first raw materials access and capability gap

02:44:49

Federal support programs and ARENA’s polysilicon cutoff

02:46:58

Industry evidence — battery value chain and project financing

02:50:34

Battery value chain, workforce and project support needs

02:50:34

Battery value chain economics and chemicals strategy

02:50:34

Landry: workforce sourcing and energy cost sensitivity

02:52:59

Witness wish list — capital, raw materials and public infrastructure

02:59:20

Domestic manufacturing constraints and policy levers

03:04:46

Jeff Wiebel: regional manufacturing capability and university role

03:04:46

Chair: domestic reservation model for critical minerals

03:10:22

NAIF and ARENA — early‑stage funding and chemicals exclusion

03:13:32

Witness Sanderson — monetary sovereignty and public resource ownership

03:16:51

Witness Sanderson — monetary sovereignty and public ownership

03:16:51

Sanderson introduced — monetary sovereignty and public ownership

03:16:51

Chair: should Commonwealth own all critical minerals projects?

03:24:22

Taxpayers, public debt and monetary sovereignty

03:29:03

Cook: partnership vs public ownership; full employment

03:34:43

Pasin commentary and Sanderson’s critique of private delivery

03:41:07

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House Standing Committee on Primary Industries

10 September 2026

House Standing Committee on Primary Industries Fri, 11 Sept 2026 Australian Parliament

15:49 - 17:13

Speaker 1

Okay. Well, welcome committee and also to the secretariat of the committee and those who are joining us online. My name's Jamie Chaffey, I'm the deputy chair of the Primary Industries Committee. The chair unfortunately will not be able to join us today, so I'll be chairing today's hearing.

So welcome to you all. I'll start by an opening statement and I declare open the public hearing of the Standing Committee of Primary Industries inquiry into factors shaping social license and economic development outcomes in critical minerals projects across Australia. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land from which we meet today and pay respect to the elders past, present of the indigenous people all across Australia.

This hearing will be audio broadcast and the transcript of proceedings will be published on the parliamentary website. I invite members of the committee now, if you could please introduce yourself and I'm not sure who your main spokesman might be, but on our screen we can see Sandy, can see Charles Lewis, Nigel, is it Philippe and Lian. Okay, so maybe I'll let you decide who would like to start with the introduction.

17:13 - 17:22

Speaker 3

Okay, thank you and good morning honorable members. I'll introduce our submission and our evidence this morning. I'll start by acknowledging...

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