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Speaker 1: Coal and gold have been added to the critical minerals

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Speaker 1: list in this country and the hopes we can double

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Speaker 1: our mineral exports in a decade. The energy resources mister

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Speaker 1: Shane Jones once again came at the banks as he

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Speaker 1: announced this today. Who are debanking fossil fuel companies? I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to stand for one more minute of that

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Speaker 1: won't riddled intimidation. Allison Paul is the senior vice president

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Speaker 1: at mining company Oceania Gold and she's with me the Sevening.

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Speaker 1: Hi Allison, Hi, Ryan, Does this speech change anything for you?

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Speaker 2: It was good to hear gold included in the critical

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Speaker 2: minerals list. It makes a lot of sense. It actually

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Speaker 2: doesn't change what we do day to day. We've been

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Speaker 2: mining here for thirty four years and we think we

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Speaker 2: already deliver what the strategy is looking to do, which

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Speaker 2: is billions of exports, lots of jobs, and a lot

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Speaker 2: of expenditure into our region. So we think we can

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Speaker 2: deliver that, and it's talking about doing that responsibly and sustainably,

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Speaker 2: and that is part of who we are. That doesn't

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Speaker 2: change at all.

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Speaker 1: What's stopping you from going faster.

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Speaker 2: Mining is a business that involves a lot of preparation.

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Speaker 2: You have to explore for the gold in our case

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Speaker 2: and firm up your case for mining it, and you

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Speaker 2: have to get the permits and approvals to do that.

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Speaker 2: So certainly the government's Fast Track Approvals Act is going

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Speaker 2: to be for us potentially a game changer in the

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Speaker 2: as much as anything the one stop shop approach, So

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Speaker 2: the fact that you can bring your case before a

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Speaker 2: single approvals process, that is going to be hopefully something

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Speaker 2: that speeds up what we're able to do and sees

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Speaker 2: us getting started on some of these projects imminently.

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Speaker 1: And that's our aim, and that will mean hundreds of

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Speaker 1: extra jobs. Right are they full time jobs? And how

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Speaker 1: long jobs last?

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Speaker 2: So at the moment, if we look at why He

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Speaker 2: North project, at why He where this strategy was launched today,

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Speaker 2: we employ over three hundred people already and that's mostly

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Speaker 2: direct employees and some contractors. So the addition of the

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Speaker 2: why He North project, which we're looking to put through

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Speaker 2: fast tracked later this year, is going to bring hundreds

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Speaker 2: of new development jobs. Ultimately those will turn into more

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Speaker 2: mining jobs, and that's in the order of another three

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Speaker 2: hundred or so mining jobs. So it does bring extra

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Speaker 2: employment as well as strengthening the existing operation at y.

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Speaker 1: Head, right, So three hundred mining jobs plus of a

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Speaker 1: couple of hundred development jobs, and we're talking about I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is real cash for why he isn't it Real

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Speaker 1: cash for the region and real cash for the country.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, it's going to be over three billion dollars

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Speaker 2: worth of expenditure over the course of the minment we're

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Speaker 2: planning and half billion and just the capital that we're

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Speaker 2: going to invest in the first years.

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Speaker 1: Have you guys had any problems with your banks, Allison.

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Speaker 2: No, we haven't.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the bigger oil. Thank you. Nice to talk.

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Speaker 1: That's Allison Paul, Senior vice president Legal and public Affairs

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Speaker 1: from Oceania Gold. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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