Australia set for decades-long mining boom: top official

SYDNEY, October 22, 2009 (AFP) - Australia could be set for a decades-long commodities boom fuelled by rocketing demand from China and India, a senior official said in the country's latest upbeat economic assessment. Treasury secretary Ken Henry also said a return to full employment was a "conceivable possibility" in the coming years, with major export partners showing unexpected resilience despite the global downturn.
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"It now appears the impact of the global financial crisis on the Chinese economy and the Indian economy hasn't been nearly as large as many feared," Henry told a Senate hearing late Wednesday.

"It seems that's likely to support relatively high commodity prices, that is prices for Australian export commodities, for a considerable period of time, quite possibly for some decades."

Australia enjoyed a decade of stellar economic growth, underpinned by intense demand for resources from fast-industrialising China and India, until the global financial crisis.

But the world's biggest miner BHP Billiton in September said it expected growth in China to fuel a new boom over coming decades, with global steel demand to double in 15 years.
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Both India and China would drive a 40 percent