Former Defence minister Kim Beazley has called for critical minerals to be included as “another leg” of the AUKUS agreement to break the dependence of Western democracies on China, which currently dominates the rare earths supply chain. Mr Beazley told InnovationAus.com that there needed to be a strategic decision by the Commonwealth government to develop…

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