Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup The AWU’s draft resolution for the Labor national conference says Australia has some of the world’s largest supply of critical minerals, which are “indispensable for the high-tech products integral to the renewable energy transition”. One of the party’s most influential affiliates, the Australian Workers Union, is pushing for “a significant, punitive tax” on the export of raw critical minerals – like lithium, cobalt and rare earths – with the revenue to help subsidise domestic processing and manufacturing. “It will be held in Brisbane in August and people will put their views there but the cabinet determines the government policy.” “We are a party that debates our policy live on national TV,” Albanese told reporters on Tuesday. Albanese poured cold water on the negative gearing push on Tuesday, saying the government would stick with the housing policies that Labor took to the 2022 election, including the housing future fund that remains held up in the Senate.
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