The year of the bailout: Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter next in line for taxpayers’ cash
More than $3bn in public money has been given to Australia’s smelters and steelworks in an alarmingly ad-hoc way
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Will 2025 be remembered as the year of the bailout?
More than $3bn of taxpayer money has been committed to propping up the country’s hugely power-hungry metal making and smelting industries.