“When mining does well, Australia – and Australians – do well! But if mining doesn’t do well, nor do Australians”. Quote from Mrs Rinehart, Founder of National Mining and Related Industries Day.
Today we celebrate National Mining and Related Industries Day to recognise the essential role of these industries in Australia.
Mining companies pay more tax in Australia than all other industries combined, and hence without this contribution, Australia would be very different and our record debt and your taxes, would escalate.
Australian mining has never before faced such an unfavourable operating environment – littered with increasing regulatory burdens, delayed approvals and soaring energy costs, declining productivity, declining international competitiveness, and massive expenditures to be wasted because of the “green incinerator” that does zilch to help our productivity or competitiveness! Among other serious problems. In stark contrast with more favourable regimes such as in the USA, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and several countries in Europe, that make investment and development welcome in the mining and related industries.
National Mining and Related Industries Day is a reminder that we must speak up for our essential industries. Essential industries that have delivered high living standards for decades, but now according to the premier mining organisation, Minerals Council of Australia, 80 percent of the future pipeline of mining projects, have been cancelled. Many of those earning their living from the fossil fuels industry, now have their jobs at risk. And lessening the fossils industry which have provided low cost reliable electricity over decades, building extra infrastructure such as thousands of kilometres of transmission lines for green based unreliable energy, and importing huge expensive flammable batteries, will have the result of higher electricity prices for everyone.
In her remarks about the significance of the day, Mrs Rinehart said: “Today is not only a day of pride for our essential industry. It is a day to remind Australians everywhere – of the massive contribution to Australia that we make, bigger than all other industries combined!
Without a significant mining industry, we would not have the high paid jobs, nor the hospitals, roads, bridges, airports, and defence that we rely upon. Nor be able to provide for our pensioners, veterans, tertiary students, or pay for our nurses and police to the extent that we do.
This is the central truth of our nation: mining is the backbone of Australia, mining builds Australia, mining gives us better standards of living, while the anti-mining far left and adding extra government tape and regulation, would see us poorer and weaker.
Just imagine how much more would have been possible to provide, if mining projects hadn’t been delayed or cancelled, thanks to excessive government tape, long delayed approval processes and bad government policies.
Great policies don’t come from the Canberra bureaucracy far removed from the realities of our industry, today is a call to action!”
Watch Founder Mrs Rinehart’s and Patron Tad Watroba’s speeches for the 2025 National Mining and Related Industries Day at the link: HERE