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Editorial: Premier and PM: help business thrive
In the end, BHP wasn’t left with much of a choice. A glut of cheap supply from Chinese-backed mines in Indonesia had wreaked havoc on global nickel prices. At the start of 2023, nickel was fetching $46,000 a tonne. That’s fallen back to just $25,000 today. …