Review resources

This is a non-exhaustive list of external web-based resources where people can find further information relevant to our review.

We will update this list as our review progresses.

Queensland

• Queensland Register of Legislation (official website for State legislation, including Acts and regulations)
• Queensland Parliament (State bills and parliamentary debates)
• Department of Resources, includes:
  • Queensland Resources Industry Development Plan
  • Critical Minerals Strategy
  • Abandoned mines management and rehabilitation

• Business Queensland, includes:
  • GeoResGlobe (interactive mining and spatial data mapping tool)
  • Information for landholders (including information about compensation for mining leases)
  • Public notices and tenders (including mining lease application notices and recently granted resource authorities)
  • Projects (includes information on the environmental impact statement process and lists current projects)
• Department of Environment and Science, includes:
  • Environmentally relevant activities (including information on mining resource activities, petroleum, geothermal and greenhouse gas storage, and environmental impact assessment)
  • Public notices and consultations (including environmental impact statements that are currently open for comment)
  • Public register portal (records relating to the regulation of environmentally relevant activities, including copies of environmental authorities and progressive rehabilitation and closure plans)
• Department of Treaty, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Communities and the Arts, includes:
  • Statement of Commitment to reframe the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders and the Queensland Government
  • Path to treaty
  • Local Thriving Communities
  • Queensland’s Closing the Gap implementation plan
• Queensland Communities Hub (Queensland Government website for consultations by the Department of Treaty, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Communities and the Arts; includes information on the Cultural Heritage Acts review)
• Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, includes:
  • Coordinator-General
  • Strong and sustainable resource communities

Australia

• Federal Register of Legislation (official website for Federal legislation, including Acts and regulations)
• Parliament of Australia (Australian bills and parliamentary debates)
• Department of Industry, Science and Resources, includes:
  • Critical Minerals Strategy 2023-2030
• Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, includes:
  • Climate Change and emissions reductions strategies and international commitments, including information on Australia’s international clean energy partnerships
  • EPBC Act reforms
  • Options Paper: First Nations cultural heritage protection reform
• National Agreement on Closing the Gap (Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Organisations & Australian Governments)
• National Native Title Tribunal, includes:
  • Native Title Vision and mapping services
  • Information about native title applications, Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) and future acts

International

• CommonLII (database with legal information from Commonwealth and common law jurisdictions)
• WorldLII (database with legislation and court judgments from international jurisdictions)
• United Nations, includes:
  • Paris Agreement
  • Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Global Compact
  • UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
  • United Nations Environment Programme
  • Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (intergovernmental organisation focused on the development of social, economic and environmental standards and policies), includes:
  • OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct
• International Council on Mining and Metals (an industry organising founded on the premise of improving sustainable development in the mining and metals industry), includes:
  • Global industry standard on tailings management
• Sustainable Minerals Institute (a multi-disciplinary research institute focused on global sustainability challenges, based at the University of Queensland), includes:
  • Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
  • Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation
• International Energy Agency (intergovernmental organisation that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the global energy sector), includes:
  • The role of critical minerals in clean energy transitions
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (independent think tank informing international policy on sustainable development), includes:
  • Searching for critical minerals? How metals are produced and associated together
• Transparency International, including:
  • Corruption risks in mining approvals: Australian snapshot