{"id":878414,"date":"2026-09-03T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878414\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:50:10","slug":"why-australia-is-losing-the-critical-minerals-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878414\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Australia is losing the critical minerals race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former resources minister<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p60tdv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Martin Ferguson<\/a> argued yesterday in these pages that Australia needs to look afresh at its relationship with South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson identified critical minerals as one of the most promising opportunities to strengthen bilateral trade. Korea needs secure supplies for its battery and advanced manufacturing industries, while Australia holds many of the minerals it wants.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former resources minister Martin Ferguson argued yesterday in these pages that Australia needs to look afresh at its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-878414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}