Swan is our current labor party treasurer... a great leap forward from the previous incumbent Costello.
LYC has in fact now got CNMC as a new shareholder. (China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd (CNMC) with 51.66%.
The upside is that LYC probably now has the funds to move forward to mining and processing.
See:
http://www.lynascorp.com/content/upload/files/press_releases/Lynas_Media_Release_010509.pdf