Australian Mining Law Bulletin – September 2025

This edition includes insights on:

1. a Supreme Court of Western Australia decision which has determined that local government rates can be imposed upon occupied miscellaneous licences;
2. a Wardens Court of Western Australia decision regarding the validity of grants of surface rights over a mining lease;
3. a Supreme Court of South Australia decision highlighting the broad discretion of the South Australian Minister to reject mining tenement applications;
4. the Supreme Court of Victoria agreeing to hear proceedings relating to an injury to an Australian resident FIFO worker injured while working in PNG for the PNG-based subsidiary of an Australian miner; and
5. the introduction to Western Australian parliament of long awaited reforms to the Western Australian Mining Act.