ABC Breakfast Radio Alice Springs with Stewart Brash

Key points

• Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King says the Arafura Rare Earths mine at Nolans, about 130 kilometres north of Alice Springs, is of global significance. She said the project would supply up to about 5 percent of the global market and that she was confident of its success.
• King also said Arafura is working to ensure much of its workforce and contracting is based locally.
• On gas, she said federal laws must treat states and territories equally, so the Northern Territory is subject to the gas reservation.