I don't know if anyone else watched this on ABC TV yesterday. The minister seemed to talk about coal lots, iron ore to a lesser degree. He only mentioned lithium briefly bundled up with all other "battery metals", and possible downstram processing when answering a couple of questions from jounalists but even then steered the question back towards his favourite minerals.
The only real positive I took from his performance was a veiled mention of the 'Northern Development Fund' ?? and Lithium projects, but he couldn't elaborate due to commercial in confidence provisos.
