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Tim Ayers says government committee to seeing Glencore’s Mount Isa smelter stay open
Tim Ayres, the minister for industry, innovation and science, said this morning “everybody” has a responsibility to “commit, engage and make sure we’re investing in the future” as Glencore considers closing a smelting plant in Mount Isa, Queensland that supports thousands of jobs. Prime minister Anthony Albanese spoke about the potential closure yesterday, saying Australia had been “good to Glencore,” adding “It’s about time Glencore is good back to Australia”. Ayres told RN Breakfast:
The message is that the same message for Glencore as it is for a range of these other smelters around Australia that are in challenging circumstances at the moment. That is, everybody’s got a responsibility to commit, engage, and make sure we’re investing in the future of this.
So we are engaged as the federal government, but it’s also about what state governments deliver, what the industry itself delivers, what the supply chain delivers, and the future of these capabilities and the owners themselves have an important role to play.
We are absolutely at the table, absolutely engaged to understand what is the best future. Sustainable, competitive business here that can drive jobs and investment in North Queensland.
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