The AusIMM regularly makes submissions on issues affecting the minerals sector on behalf of its members.

A key objective for The AusIMM is the sustainability of the minerals sector in The Australasian region. Submissions to recent inquiries are divided up into the following topics:

• Federal Budget
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• R&D
• Education
• Other

Federal Budget

• The AusIMM Pre-Budget Submission 2010-11
• The AusIMM Pre-Budget Submission 2009-10 (January 2009)
• Australia 2020 – The Future of the Economy

Skills Needs

• National Resources Sector Employment Task Force Submission (April 2010)
  

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Emissions Trading Submission (September 2008)
• Australia 2020 – Population, Sustainability, Climate Change and Water
• Submission to Prime Ministerial Emissions Trading Task Force (April 2007)

OHS

• Submission to National OHS Review (July 2008)
• Submission to Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994 (WA) Review (February 2008)
• Key Points from National Mines Safety Framework Submission (July 2007)

R&D

• Response to R&D Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Bill
  
  
• Response to ATO Research and Development Tax Incentive (November 2009)
  
  
• Submission to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into raising the level of productivity growth in the Australian Economy (August 2009)
  
  
• Submission to Federal Innovation Review (April 2008)
  
  
• Submission to FRST on Draft Investment Signals 2007/08 (June 2007)
  
  
• Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the Economic, Social and Environmental Returns on Public Support on Science and Innovation (August 2006)
  
  
• Submission to Inquiry into the HoR Inquiry into ‘The State of Australia's Manufactured Export and Import Competing Base Now and Beyond the Resources Boom’ (July 2006)
  
  
• Submission to DEST Inquiry into the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) (December 2005)

Education

• Submission to DEEWR Review of Australian Higher Education (July 2008)
  
  
• Submission to DEST Review Draft National Strategic Priorities for Higher Education (October 10 2005)
  
  
• Submission to ACER Review of the MCA National Education Program (June 2005)
  
  
• Submission to DEST Science, Engineering and Technology Skills Audit (June 2005)
  
  
• Submission to DEST Research Quality Framework (May 2005)
  
  
• AusIMM Submission to DEST: Building University Diversity, (April 2005)
  
  
• AusIMM Submission in Favour of Increasing Commonwealth Grants for Minerals Education (November 2004)

Women in Mining

• Submission to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment And Workplace Relations on Relocation to Meet Regional Skills Needs (May 2010)
  
  
• Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment and Workplace Relations on Pay Equity  (January 2009)
  
  
• Paid Parental Leave Submission to the Productivity Commission (May 2008)

Migration

• AusIMM Submission to 457 Visa Expert Reference Group (April 2008)
  
• NZ Branch, Submission to Crown Minerals Minerals Programme Review, (March 2006)