A lot can change in six months. Just ask Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who will on Tuesday deliver a vastly different federal budget to the economic roadmap laid out by the Coalition in March.
The federal government is establishing a loan facility to help Australia’s critical minerals sector tap into what Scott Morrison says is one of the world’s largest recoverable reserves of the minerals used in advanced technologies.
Lithium-sulfur batteries could represent a radical new way for storing energy to support renewable electricity generation, electric vehicles and other needs.