In May, Treasurer Scott Morrison announced that the annual cash refunds available for small enterprises under the Research and Development Incentive Scheme was being capped at $4 million.
“Without those incentives, Browns Range would not have happened. The employment of people in those Indigenous communities in the Kimberley would not have happened. In the future, other similar projects simply won’t happen,” Mr Bauk said.
Speaking at the WA Mining Club’s Miners on the Move event in June, the fired-up Northern Minerals chief urged his colleagues to lobby their members of parliament to reverse the change.
“One of the problems is that we don’t use this incentive a lot, so we tend to forget about it. But when it’s gone, it’s gone. And it’s pretty clear to me that it can be the difference between us developing innovative ways to produce our resources, or just leaving them in the ground.”
