Ms Constable said one of the report’s most worrying findings was that the mining industry’s net capital stock was plateauing at a time when it should be accelerating off the back of the critical minerals surge, which was “a further dent to the nation’s lagging productivity”. The report outlines 14 recommendations – many familiar to successive governments – across five areas for reform, and claims that the economy would be $290 billion larger by 2030 if Australia’s mining sector expanded at a similar trajectory to the China-fuelled mining boom earlier this century. Households would be $11,700 better off and real...