Beneficial and productive post-mining land use

Introduction

This inquiry was established on 14 May 2024 to inquire into and report on beneficial and productive post-mining land use.

Video recordings of hearings, where available, can be found on the NSW Parliament's YouTube channel.

Terms of reference
Timeline
DateMilestone
Fri 03 May 2024Referred
Tue 25 June 2024Submissions closed
Mon 05 August 2024Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Mon 12 August 2024Hearing - Jubilee Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Tue 20 August 2024Hearing - Auditorium, Muswellbrook RSL, Muswellbrook
Wed 21 August 2024Hearing - Lake Macquarie City Council Chambers, 126-138 Main Road
Mon 21 October 2024Hearing - Jubilee Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Tue 17 December 2024Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Mon 14 April 2025Final Report
Mon 14 April 2025Final Report
Mon 14 July 2025Government Response to Final Report due
Wed 16 July 2025Government Response to Final Report
Submissions

Submissions to this inquiry closed on 25 Jun 2024.

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Hearings and transcripts
DateVenue details
Mon 05 August 2024Macquarie Room, Parliament House, SydneyView scheduleView transcript
Mon 12 August 2024Jubilee Room, Parliament House, SydneyView scheduleView transcript
Tue 20 August 2024Auditorium, Muswellbrook RSL, MuswellbrookView scheduleView transcript
Wed 21 August 2024Lake Macquarie City Council Chambers, 126-138 Main RoadView scheduleView transcript
Mon 21 October 2024Jubilee Room, Parliament House, SydneyView scheduleView transcript
Tue 17 December 2024Macquarie Room, Parliament House, SydneyView scheduleView transcript
Reports and government responses

Government response - Report No. 53 - State Development - Beneficial and productive post-mining land use

Tabled date:
Wed 16 July 2025
PDF605.55 KB

Report No. 53 - State Development - Beneficial and productive post-mining land use - Accessible

Tabled date:
Mon 14 April 2025
DOCX921.62 KB

Report No. 53 - State Development - Beneficial and productive post-mining land use

Tabled date:
Mon 14 April 2025
Government response due:
Mon 14 July 2025
PDF1.94 MB
Other documents
DateTypeTitle
Tue 28 January 2025Answers to Questions on Notice DPIRD, NSW Resources, and the DPHI (pdf, 2.09 MB)
Fri 24 January 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Tom Loomes and Mr Chris Ritchie - Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (pdf, 703.09 KB)
Fri 24 January 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Tony Chappel - NSW Environment Protection Authority (pdf, 827.09 KB)
Fri 24 January 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Auditor-General, NSW Audit Office (pdf, 880.52 KB)
Wed 08 January 2025Additional InformationDr Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, CSU (pdf, 623.15 KB)
Mon 16 December 2024Media ReleaseFinal hearing for post-mining inquiry (pdf, 127.60 KB)
Wed 11 December 2024Correspondence Email from Dr Pete Whitbread-Abrutat, co-author of '102 Things to do with a Hole in the Ground' providing a link to Australian Centre for Geomechanics Mine Closure 2024 Conference on Mine Closure paper titled 'A Mine Ends. Then What?' (pdf, 219.17 KB)
Wed 04 December 2024Correspondence Email from Professor Roberta Ryan, Founding Executive Director, Institute for Regional Futures, providing four policy papers (pdf, 2.17 MB)
Fri 22 November 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Professor Roberta Ryan, Founding Executive Director, Institute for Regional Futures (pdf, 220.54 KB)
Thu 21 November 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Myles Egan, Research Analyst, Institute for Regional Futures (pdf, 1.20 MB)
Thu 21 November 2024Additional InformationA Brief History of Mine Rehabilitation Reforms in Queensland - Myles Egan (PDF, 285.77 KB)
Tue 12 November 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Peter Laux, Mining Technology, LEAG (pdf, 1.10 MB)
Thu 31 October 2024Correspondence Email from Dr Sally Walford, NSW Engagement Lead, CSIRO providing a link to Hunter PMLU Final Report and Summary Report (pdf, 561.28 KB)
Mon 28 October 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Ms Jillian D'Urso, External Relations and Impact Director, CRC TiME (pdf, 197.71 KB)
Mon 28 October 2024Additional InformationCRC - Business Case - Ms Jillian D'Urso (pdf, 1.48 MB)
Mon 28 October 2024Additional InformationCRC - Guidance Material - Ms Jillian D'Urso (pdf, 2.35 MB)
Mon 28 October 2024Additional InformationCRC Case Study - Ms Jillian D'Urso (pdf, 1.65 MB)
Mon 28 October 2024Additional InformationCRC - Forecasting and Planning - Ms Jillian D'Urso (pdf, 3.23 MB)
Mon 28 October 2024Additional InformationCRC - Mine closure guidance (pdf, 3.18 MB)
Mon 28 October 2024Additional InformationCRC - Fact sheet (pdf, 930.46 KB)
Mon 21 October 2024Tabled DocumentEmail from Dennis Bluth informing of intention to table 'Lessons Learnt' by Peter Laux, tendered by Mr Dennis Bluth, Hunter Lakes Corporation (pdf, 93.57 KB)
Mon 21 October 2024Tabled Document'Compiled documents, 'The Hunter Water Bank', by Hunter Lakes Corporation, including copy of 'Lessons learnt in 35 years on the way from Europe's largest opencast coal region to the Lusatia lakes land', and 9 photographs, tendered by Mr Dennis Bluth, Hunter Lakes Corporation (pdf, 11.68 MB)
Mon 21 October 2024Tabled DocumentReport, Institute for Regional Futures 'Delivering the new economy: A local government response to structural change', tendered by Professor Roberta Ryan, Institute for Regional Futures (pdf, 12.14 MB)
Mon 21 October 2024Tabled DocumentReport, Institute for Regional Futures 'Responding to Structural Change in Lake Macquarie', Briefing Paper for Policy Makers, tendered by Professor Professor Roberta Ryan, Institute for Regional Futures (pdf, 19.05 MB)
Fri 18 October 2024Media ReleaseHearing (pdf, 127.08 KB)
Tue 15 October 2024Additional InformationMr Dennis Bluth, Director, Hunter Lakes Corporation, 'From Europe's Largest opencast mining region to the Lusatia lakes land' (PDF, 1.18 MB)
Thu 19 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Nick McDermott and Mr Michael Moore - Yancoal (pdf, 111.11 KB)
Thu 19 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Professor Tim Roberts and Mr Alec Roberts - Hunter Innovation and Science Hub (pdf, 63.15 KB)
Wed 18 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Craig Bagnall - SEATA Group (pdf, 32.99 MB)
Tue 17 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Ms Amanda Wetzel (pdf, 100.14 KB)
Tue 17 September 2024Additional InformationIGF Current Status of mine closure readiness Are governments prepared - dated August 2021 - Ms Amanda Wetzel (pdf, 4.39 MB)
Tue 17 September 2024Additional InformationICMMs Integrated Mine Closure Good Practice Guide – then and now, dated April 2020 - Ms Amanda Wetzel (pdf, 3.07 MB)
Tue 17 September 2024Additional InformationLand Use Police Multiple and sequential land use A national police for Australia - by James J Walcott - Ms Amanda Wetzel (pdf, 233.15 KB)
Tue 17 September 2024Additional InformationSCER Multiple Land Use Framework - Ms Amanda Wetzel (pdf, 317.23 KB)
Tue 17 September 2024Additional InformationQueensland Government -Maximising post-mining land use Queensland Government reforms - Ms Amanda Wetzel (pdf, 335.63 KB)
Tue 17 September 2024Additional InformationNSW Department of Mineral Resources -Synoptic Plan - Integrated Landscapes for Coal Mine Rehabilitation - Ms Amanda Wetzel (pdf, 15.39 MB)
Mon 16 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Tony Chappel - NSW Environment Protection Authority (PDF, 145.62 KB)
Mon 16 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Ms Liz Watts and Ms Amanda Walker - BHP (pdf, 790.83 KB)
Thu 12 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Stephen Galilee - NSW Minerals Council (pdf, 597.49 KB)
Wed 11 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Christian William Lauritzen - MACH Energy (pdf, 1.17 MB)
Wed 04 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr David Gainsford - NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure (pdf, 344.80 KB)
Wed 04 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Ms Georgina Woods and Mr Steve Phillips, Lock the Gate Alliance (pdf, 59.76 KB)
Mon 02 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Mr Grahame Kelly, Mining and Energy Union (pdf, 985.46 KB)
Mon 02 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Dr Antonio Pentalone, Advanced Simplicity and Mr Garry Booth, Wandarra (pdf, 188.47 KB)
Mon 02 September 2024Answers to Questions on Notice Answers to questions on notice and additional information provided by Ms Kimberley Crofts (pdf, 14.88 MB)
Mon 02 September 2024Additional Information'Diversification and growth, transforming mining land in the Hunter Valley' - by Lock the Gate Alliance, provided by Kimberley Crofts (pdf, 4.29 MB)
Mon 02 September 2024Correspondence Email from Ms Alison Goodwin, on behalf of Mr Grahame Kelly, General Secretary, Mining and Energy Union, providing clarification to evidence given at the public hearing on 5 August 2024 (pdf, 993.23 KB)
Mon 02 September 2024Correspondence Email from Dr Antonio Pantalone, Director, Advanced Simplicity, on behalf of Mr Garry Booth, providing clarification to evidence given at the public hearing on 5 August 2024 (pdf, 524.45 KB)
Wed 21 August 2024Tabled DocumentFour figures compiled by Ms Amanda Wetzel, tabled by Ms Amanda Wetzel (pdf, 1.05 MB)
Wed 21 August 2024Tabled DocumentAfter the coal rush, the clean up. A community blueprint to restore the Hunter – tendered by Ms Sophie Nicholas, Hunter Renewal (pdf, 8.48 MB)
Mon 19 August 2024Correspondence Email from Dr Corinne Unger, providing additional supplementary journal articles and report from 12 August 2024 hearing (pdf, 6.86 MB)
Fri 16 August 2024Media ReleaseRegional hearings (pdf, 148.88 KB)
Wed 14 August 2024Correspondence Email from Mr Gary Murphy, General Manager, Liverpool Plains Shire Council, providing clarification to evidence given at the public hearing on 5 August 2024 (pdf, 587.78 KB)
Mon 12 August 2024Tabled DocumentNSW DPI - Biomass for Bioenergy Project documents - tendered by Mr Craig Bagnall, SEATA Group (pdf, 2.70 MB)
Mon 12 August 2024Tabled DocumentChart – Diverting Biowastes and Problematic wastes from Landfill into Valuable Gas and Carbon Products - tendered by Mr Craig Bagnall, SEATA Group (pdf, 587.38 KB)
Mon 12 August 2024Tabled DocumentFour photographs of existing Biortica sites - Bunyip in Victoria - Cannapacific in New South Wales and Apollo Green in Canada - tendered by Mr Thomas Varga and Mr Simon Tolhurst, Biortica (pdf, 4.72 MB)
Mon 12 August 2024Tabled DocumentConcepts for potential NSW regulatory reforms for improved circular economy and climate action in the land and primary industries sector using Biochar - dated August 2024 - tendered by Mr Russ Martin, Global Product Stewardship Council (pdf, 2.30 MB)
Mon 05 August 2024Media ReleaseFirst hearing (pdf, 138.31 KB)
Tue 02 July 2024Correspondence CRC TiME academic research and resources focused on mine closures and post-mine transitions - provided by Jillian D'Urso (pdf, 201.05 KB)
Fri 17 May 2024Media ReleaseNew inquiry established (pdf, 118.38 KB)
Contact us

Alex Stedman

Role:
Director Committees
Phone:
9230 2253
Email:
state.development@parliament.nsw.gov.au

Jessie Halligan

Role:
Principal Council Officer
Phone:
9230 2064
Email:
state.development@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Email:
state.development@parliament.nsw.gov.au

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