My question is to the Minister for Resources. How is the Albanese Labor government working with allies and trading partners to secure a reliable supply chain of critical minerals and rare earths?

Ms MADELEINE KING (Brand - Minister for Resources and Minister for Northern Australia) (14:11): I thank the member for Hunter for his excellent question. Last week I was honoured to be in the cabinet room of the White House to witness our Prime Minister and the President of the United States of America sign the landmark critical minerals framework agreement between Australia and the United States. This historic agreement positions Australia alongside our friends in the US in a global effort to reduce dependency on unstable supply chains and to safeguard the technologies that keep our economies and our democracies strong. The framework agreement directly strengthens the investment in Australia's critical minerals sector by providing an architecture for Australian producers to access US financing. The agreement mobilises billions of dollars in financing in Australia and America to turbocharge an A17 billion; the Critical Minerals Facility now has 3 billion investment. The NAIF has invested 1.2 billion Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve.

This is the work we have been doing since day one so that when we got to the White House on Monday, with the Prime Minister sitting alongside the President, we were able to deliver for the Americans and for the Australian people and jobs in resources. It is indisputable. No government has done more than the Albanese Labor government for the resources sector and the critical minerals and rare earth elements mining and processing sector of this country.

An opposition member interjecting-

Ms MADELEINE KING: Believe it.