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
  • Mining and exploration information

• 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)
  • Native title for mining and resources
• Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, 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

• Australian Law Reform Commission (includes information about the current review of the Future Acts Regime)
• 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
  • Dhawura Ngilan: A vision for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage in Australia and the Best Practice Standards in Indigenous cultural heritage management and legislation
• 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
  • Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (including links to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment)
  • Resolutions of the General Assembly
• 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
• International Association for Public Participation