CME appeared before the Senate Select Committee Inquiry on the effectiveness of the Australian Government’s Northern Australia agenda on Thursday 11 February 2021.
Established in July 2019, the Inquiry has focused on evaluating the progress of the Australian Government’s Northern Australia agenda, as set out in the Our North, Our Future: White Paper on Developing Northern Australia.
The Committee’s focus to date has been on identification of the barriers to investment in infrastructure and economic development across northern Australia.
Questions received by CME included trends in the resources sector; trade implications; supply chain considerations for northern operations and markets and; opportunities to improve fringe benefit and remote area tax arrangements to improve liveability of regional towns in the north of WA.
CME was represented at this hearing by Paul Everingham, Chief Executive, Adrienne LaBombard, Manager – Economic Competitiveness and Roannah Wade, Senior Policy Adviser – Land Access & Exploration.
The Committee is due to deliver the final report to the Parliament by 28 April 2021. The interim report was published on 3 December 2020.
