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National control of Australia's oil, gas, and mineral resources

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The reassertion of National control over Australia's oil and gas and
huge mineral resources, by "buying back the farm", or through other
necessary government action.
This is the unfinished work of Gough Whitlam and Rex Connor. Australia
is home to the world's largest diamond mine, the Argyle mine in the
Kimberleys, and we also rank in the world's top six producers of
bauxite, cobalt, gold, iron ore, lead, lithium, manganese ore, mineral
sands, nickel, silver, tantalum, uranium and zinc. As for reserves, we
have the world's largest economic demonstrated resources of bauxite,
lead, mineral sands (alluvial ilmenite, rutile and zircon), tantalum,
uranium, silver and zinc, and are among the world's top six for black
coal, brown coal, cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold, iron ore, lithium,
manganese ore, nickel and rare earth oxides. Australia also ranks 11th
in world production of natural gas, the North West Shelf Project alone
responsible for producing, marketing, and transporting one-tenth of the
world's current supply of liquified natural gas. Most of these bountiful
resources are in the control of the British Crown's raw materials
cartel, led by the Queen's own mining company, Rio Tinto. Rex Connor's
vision was to use this huge wealth for the development of Australia. It
is important this be achieved, if we are to progress from being nothing
more than a glorified quarry for our colonial masters.