Why are Australia’s rare earths ‘crucial for the world’? Joe Hockey has an idea
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Source: The Age
Published: 2026-08-03 14:22 UTC+10:00
Section: National / WA
Factuality Score: 90
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Politics, Middle East, Military & Defence, Australia, Commodities, World News, War & Conflict
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Joe Hockey, the former federal treasurer and Australian ambassador for the United States, has stressed to a mining conference the global importance of the nation’s resources as war rages in the Middle East.
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