Labor faces internal pressure to crack down on negative gearing with cap of one property

Anthony Albanese meeting with miners in Cessnock during the election campaign. A key union is pushing for an export tariff on unprocessed critical minerals such as cobalt and lithium to boost manufacturing in Australia. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Labor is facing internal pressure to introduce a new tax on the export of raw critical minerals and also to clamp down on negative gearing.

Both measures are to be debated at the Labor party’s coming national conference, the first since Anthony Albanese led the party to victory at last year’s election.