coal mining
IndustryReferenced in 13 bills
Mineral Resources (Galilee Basin) Amendment Bill 2018
This bill would have banned all coal mining in Queensland's Galilee Basin, including terminating Adani's existing mining leases for the Carmichael mine. It was a Greens private member's bill based on the 2018 IPCC report finding that coal must be phased out globally by 2050 to limit dangerous climate change. The bill lapsed and did not become law.
Progressive Coal Royalties Protection (Keep Them in the Bank) Bill 2024
This bill locks in Queensland's progressive coal royalty rates by preventing them from being reduced through regulation alone. Any future government wanting to lower coal royalties must pass legislation through Parliament, ensuring public debate and transparency.
Revenue Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill implements major revenue changes from the 2021-22 and 2022-23 State Budgets. It reforms land tax to account for interstate property holdings, introduces higher coal royalties during high price periods, creates a mental health levy on large employers, and provides various stamp duty exemptions for small businesses, retirement visa holders, and deceased estates.
Mines Legislation (Resources Safety) Amendment Bill 2018
This bill strengthens workplace safety laws for Queensland's mining and quarrying industries, responding to the re-identification of black lung disease among coal miners. It increases penalties, expands inspector powers, requires better qualified ventilation officers, and creates new health surveillance for former miners.
Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill creates new criminal offences for protesters who use 'dangerous attachment devices' - specialised equipment like steel tubes, concrete barrels, and tripods designed to make it difficult and dangerous for police to remove them. It was introduced in response to climate, mining, and animal welfare protests that caused significant disruptions, including a $1.3 million delay to coal trains at the Port of Brisbane.
Resources Safety and Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill strengthens workplace safety across Queensland's resources sector following the Coal Mining Board of Inquiry and a review of fatal mining accidents. It requires better risk management through critical controls, mandates competency standards for key safety roles, modernises enforcement powers, and clarifies that companies can be prosecuted for industrial manslaughter when workers die due to criminal negligence.
Land and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill modernises Queensland's land, resources and environmental regulatory frameworks. It streamlines lease conversion and renewal processes, allows local governments to keep stock route revenue for maintenance, updates publication requirements from newspapers to digital media, and creates pathways for mining lease transfers.
Queensland Competition Authority Amendment Bill 2018
This bill updates Queensland's rules for when businesses can access major infrastructure like rail networks and coal terminals. It aligns Queensland's access regime with national competition standards and makes the Queensland Competition Authority more accountable when processing applications.
Mineral and Energy Resources (Financial Provisioning) Bill 2018
This bill creates a new financial provisioning scheme to protect Queensland from the cost of mine rehabilitation when companies fail to meet their obligations. It replaces the previous individual financial assurance system with a pooled fund where companies pay contributions based on their assessed risk level, and requires all major mines to have Progressive Rehabilitation and Closure Plans with enforceable milestones.
Mineral, Water and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill makes wide-ranging changes to Queensland's mining, petroleum and water laws. It improves dispute resolution for landholders dealing with mining and gas companies, strengthens climate change and First Nations considerations in water planning, creates temporary water access mechanisms, and establishes emergency powers for water quality crises.
Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill reforms several health-related regulatory frameworks in Queensland. It repeals the state's medicinal cannabis approval system (which duplicated Commonwealth processes), establishes a register to track occupational dust lung diseases like coal workers' pneumoconiosis, empowers health authorities to require public notices about pollution events, and ensures freehold retirement village residents receive timely payment when they leave.
Coroners (Mining and Resources Coroner) Amendment Bill 2025
This bill creates a dedicated Mining and Resources Coroner to investigate all accidental deaths on Queensland's coal mines, mines, quarries, and petroleum and gas sites. Every mining-related death will now have a mandatory public inquest to determine what happened and how similar deaths can be prevented.
Coal Mining Safety and Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill makes practical adjustments to coal mining safety employment rules and supports Queensland's critical minerals sector. It allows coal mining companies more flexibility in staffing safety-critical positions while maintaining the core protections for workers, and introduces rent deferrals for new critical minerals mining leases.