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claimQLD General Government operating statement, FY2026-27 — AI forecast, pre-registered before the 23 Jun 2026 release.

claimQLD General Government operating statement, FY2025-26 — released budget.

claimQLD General Government operating statement, FY2024-25 — reconstructed from public data (7/9 lines within ±10% of audited).

claimKuraby Station is in scope for the QLD Faster Rail Program. The Department of Transport and Main Roads has published the station upgrade and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) catchment that informs Logan City Council's planning scheme overlays for parcels within ~400m (Core TOD) and ~800m (Frame TOD) of the station.

claimLoganlea Station is in scope for the QLD Faster Rail Program. The Department of Transport and Main Roads has published the station upgrade and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) catchment that informs Logan City Council's planning scheme overlays for parcels within ~400m (Core TOD) and ~800m (Frame TOD) of the station.

claimThe Queensland Faster Rail Program is the State infrastructure program upgrading the SEQ rail corridor between Brisbane, Logan (Beenleigh), and the Gold Coast. The program is delivered by the Department of Transport and Main Roads under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 (Qld) and is co-ordinated with the Faster Rail Australia Federal Government partnership.

claimThe Logan Planning Scheme is the statutory local planning instrument for Logan City made under chapter 2 of the Planning Act 2016 (Qld). It contains the strategic framework, zones, overlays (including Flood Hazard, Bushfire Hazard, Heritage and Neighbourhood Character), and the codes that apply to development applications in Logan City.

claimThe State Development Assessment Provisions (SDAP) is the statutory instrument under section 26(2) of the Planning Regulation 2017 that the State (or the State as referral agency) applies when assessing development against state interests.

claimShapingSEQ 2023 is the statutory regional plan for South East Queensland under the Planning Act 2016. It sets the population, dwelling, and employment targets to 2046, designates the Urban Footprint, the Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area, and the Rural Living Area, and establishes the regional growth-pattern for 12 LGAs including Logan City.

claimThe State Planning Policy (SPP), made under sections 8 and 22 of the Planning Act 2016 (Qld), expresses the State's planning interests as policies that local planning schemes must reflect and that assessment managers must apply when there is no compliant local planning scheme provision.

claimKingston Station is in scope for the QLD Faster Rail Program. The Department of Transport and Main Roads has published the station upgrade and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) catchment that informs Logan City Council's planning scheme overlays for parcels within ~400m (Core TOD) and ~800m (Frame TOD) of the station.

claimBethania Station is in scope for the QLD Faster Rail Program. The Department of Transport and Main Roads has published the station upgrade and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) catchment that informs Logan City Council's planning scheme overlays for parcels within ~400m (Core TOD) and ~800m (Frame TOD) of the station.

claimWoodridge Station is in scope for the QLD Faster Rail Program. The Department of Transport and Main Roads has published the station upgrade and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) catchment that informs Logan City Council's planning scheme overlays for parcels within ~400m (Core TOD) and ~800m (Frame TOD) of the station.

claimTrinder Park Station is in scope for the QLD Faster Rail Program. The Department of Transport and Main Roads has published the station upgrade and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) catchment that informs Logan City Council's planning scheme overlays for parcels within ~400m (Core TOD) and ~800m (Frame TOD) of the station.

claimBeenleigh Station is in scope for the QLD Faster Rail Program. The Department of Transport and Main Roads has published the station upgrade and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) catchment that informs Logan City Council's planning scheme overlays for parcels within ~400m (Core TOD) and ~800m (Frame TOD) of the station.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 322 requires amended financial, sustainability, directors, or foreign passport fund reports to be relodged with ASIC within 14 days and sets member notification/publication duties.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 321 allows ASIC to direct entities to lodge specified reports, with a written direction made within 6 years and a lodgment date at least 14 days after the direction.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 320 requires a disclosing entity that has to prepare or obtain a half-year report under Division 2 to lodge it with ASIC within 75 days after the half-year end.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 319 requires annual reports prepared or obtained under Division 1 to be lodged with ASIC, with 3-month or 4-month lodgment deadlines.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 318 requires additional reporting by debenture issuers, including reports to trustees and free copies to debenture holders.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 317 requires directors of a public company required to hold an AGM to lay the financial report, required sustainability report, directors report, and auditor reports before the AGM.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 316B requires an entity that must prepare a sustainability report but need not provide it to members to make it publicly available on its website after ASIC lodgment.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 316A governs annual financial and sustainability reporting to members of companies limited by guarantee, including elected members and deadlines.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 316 gives members election choices about receiving annual reports, concise reports, particular reports, or no report, including standing elections.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 315 sets the deadline for reporting to members as the earlier of 21 days before the next AGM after year end and 4 months after year end.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 314A requires notified foreign passport funds to report annually to Australian members using reports prepared under home-economy Passport Rules and related auditor reports.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 314AA requires a registrable superannuation entity to report to members by making annual reports publicly available on its website on and after ASIC lodgment.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 314 requires companies, registered schemes, or disclosing entities to report to members for a financial year by providing required reports or a compliant concise report.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 313 imposes special audit-reporting duties for debenture issuers and guarantors, including trustee copies and prejudicial-matter reports within 7 days.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 312 requires officers to allow auditor access to books and give required information, explanation, or assistance, with strict-liability offences.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 311 requires auditors and lead auditors to notify ASIC within 28 days about specified significant contraventions, audit influence attempts, or interference with audits.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 310 gives an auditor reasonable access to books and power to require officer information, explanations, or assistance for audit or review purposes.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 309A requires an auditor report to members on whether a sustainability report is in accordance with the Act, including climate statements, sustainability standards, and climate disclosures.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 309 requires an auditor report to members on audited or reviewed half-year financial reports, including compliance, true and fair view, review matters, required disclosures, date, and strict-liability offences.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 308 requires the auditor of an annual financial report to report to members on Act compliance, accounting standards, true and fair view, defects, required disclosures, and specified remuneration-report matters.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 305 requires the half-year financial statements and notes to give a true and fair view of financial position and performance.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 304 requires a half-year financial report to comply with accounting standards and any further requirements in the regulations.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 303 provides that a half-year financial report consists of the financial statements, notes to those statements, and the directors declaration.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 307C requires the individual auditor or lead auditor to give directors a signed written independence declaration for relevant audits or reviews.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 307B requires audit working papers for financial or sustainability report audits or reviews to be retained for 7 years unless ASIC determines an earlier date.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 307A requires audits or reviews of annual or half-year financial reports to be conducted in accordance with auditing standards.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 307 requires an auditor conducting an audit or review of a financial report to form opinions about Act compliance, records, registers, and information and assistance.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 306 requires directors of a disclosing entity to prepare a half-year directors report reviewing operations and results, including directors and the auditor independence declaration.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 302 requires a disclosing entity to prepare a financial report and directors report for each half-year, have the financial report audited or reviewed under Division 3, and obtain an auditor report.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 301 generally requires a company, registered scheme, registrable superannuation entity, or disclosing entity to have its annual financial report audited and obtain an auditor report, subject to specified small proprietary, company-limited-by-guarantee, and CSF exceptions.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 300A requires a listed disclosing entity that is a company to include a clearly identified remuneration report covering key management personnel remuneration policy, performance links, prescribed remuneration details, options and contracts, shareholder response, and remuneration consultant information.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 300 requires annual directors reports for companies, registered schemes, and disclosing entities to include specified disclosures about dividends or distributions, directors, options, issued shares or interests, and officer or auditor indemnities and insurance.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 299A requires a listed company, registered scheme, or disclosing entity directors report to include information members would reasonably require to assess operations, financial position, and business strategies and prospects.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 299 requires an annual directors report to include general information about operations, results, significant changes, principal activities, post-year significant matters, likely developments, and significant environmental regulation performance.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 298 requires a company, registered scheme, registrable superannuation entity, or disclosing entity to prepare a directors report for each financial year, with specified content, signing, and limited small-entity exceptions.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 297 requires annual financial statements and notes to give a true and fair view of financial position and performance, including consolidated entity position and performance where consolidated statements are required.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 296 requires financial reports for financial years to comply with accounting standards and prescribed further requirements, subject to limited small-proprietary-company and small-company-limited-by-guarantee exceptions.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 295 requires an annual financial report to include financial statements, notes, a directors declaration, and for many public-company financial years a consolidated entity disclosure statement.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 292 requires annual financial and directors reports for financial years by disclosing entities, public companies, large proprietary companies, registered schemes, registrable superannuation entities, and some small proprietary and company-limited-by-guarantee cases.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 251B gives members free access to inspect minute books for members meetings and resolutions, and requires copies requested by members to be provided within 14 days on payment of any prescribed fee.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 251AA requires a listed company to record specified proxy-vote and poll information in minutes for members meeting resolutions and disclose it to the relevant market operator if listed.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 251A requires a company to keep minute books recording proceedings and resolutions of members, directors, directors committees, and single-member or single-director decisions within 1 month, with minutes signed within a reasonable time.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) ss 250U-250W create the listed-company two-strikes process: if consecutive remuneration-report adoption votes receive at least 25% against votes, a spill resolution must be put, and if passed the spill meeting must be held within 90 days.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 250R requires a listed company AGM to put adoption of the remuneration report to an advisory vote, with key management personnel and closely related party voting restrictions.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 250MA requires a special resolution to have proper notice under ss 249J and 249L, at least 75% of votes cast by entitled members, and otherwise be valid.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 250L allows a poll to be demanded by at least 5 voting members, members with at least 5% of poll votes, or the chair, before voting, before show-of-hands results are declared, or immediately after those results are declared.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 250BB regulates proxy voting where the appointment specifies how to vote, including requiring a chair proxy to vote that way on a poll and limiting inconsistent show-of-hands voting.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 250A makes a proxy appointment valid if signed or authenticated as prescribed by the member and containing the member name and address, company name, proxy name or office, and meetings where it may be used.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 249X lets a voting member appoint a proxy, including an individual or body corporate, and permits two proxies where the member has two or more votes, with default equal vote splitting if proportions are not specified.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 249N allows members with at least 5% of votes, or at least 100 voting members subject to regulations, to give notice of a resolution they propose to move at a general meeting.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 249HA requires at least 28 days notice of a listed company members meeting, despite s 249H and despite anything in the constitution.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 249H generally requires at least 21 days notice of a members meeting, permits shorter notice only with specified member consent, and bars shorter notice for public-company director removal and auditor removal meetings.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 249F lets members with at least 5% of votes call and arrange a general meeting themselves, at their expense, as far as possible in the same way company general meetings may be called.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 249D requires directors to call and arrange a general meeting when requested by members with at least 5% of votes, calling it within 21 days and holding it within 2 months after the request.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 247A lets the Court order inspection of company or registered scheme books where the applicant acts in good faith and inspection is for a proper purpose, with derivative-action applicants subject to connected-purpose criteria.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 237 requires the Court to grant leave for a statutory derivative action only if criteria including company inaction, applicant good faith, company best interests, serious question, and notice are satisfied.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 236 lets eligible members, former members, entitled registrants, officers, and former officers bring or intervene in proceedings on behalf of a company with Court leave under s 237.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 233 gives the Court broad power to make orders for oppression, including winding up, constitution changes, share purchase, receivership, injunctions, and required acts.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 232 lets the Court make oppression-remedy orders if company affairs, acts or omissions, or member resolutions are contrary to members interests as a whole or oppressive, unfairly prejudicial, or unfairly discriminatory.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 230 says a director is not relieved from statutory or fiduciary duties merely because a related-party transaction is authorised by Chapter 2E or approved by members.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 210 removes the need for member approval where a related-party financial benefit is on terms reasonable as if dealing at arm length, or less favourable to the related party.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 209 says a s 208 contravention does not invalidate the connected contract or make the public company or entity guilty of an offence, but involved persons face civil penalty exposure and dishonest involvement is an offence.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 208 generally requires member approval for a public company or controlled entity to give a financial benefit to a related party, unless an exception in ss 210-216 applies.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 206B automatically disqualifies a person from managing corporations in specified conviction, bankruptcy, personal insolvency, CATSI Act disqualification, and foreign-court-order situations.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 203D lets a public company remove a director by resolution despite contrary constitution or agreement terms, subject to notice and director response rights.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 200B generally requires member approval under s 200E before specified entities give retirement-connected benefits to persons who hold, or recently held, managerial or executive office.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 199B prohibits a company or related body corporate from paying or agreeing to pay insurance premiums for officer or auditor liabilities, other than legal costs, arising from wilful breach of duty or contraventions of ss 182 or 183.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 199A restricts companies and related bodies corporate from exempting officers or auditors from company liabilities and from indemnifying them for specified liabilities or legal costs.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 201B allows only an individual who is at least 18 to be appointed as a company director, and permits a person disqualified under Part 2D.6 to be appointed only with ASIC permission or Court leave.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 201A requires a proprietary company to have at least one director ordinarily resident in Australia, subject to extra CSF-shareholder rules, and a public company to have at least three directors with at least two ordinarily resident in Australia.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 195 generally bars a public-company director with a material personal interest in a matter at a directors meeting from being present while the matter is considered or voting on it, subject to statutory exceptions.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 191 requires a company director with a material personal interest in a matter relating to the company affairs to notify the other directors of the interest unless a statutory exception applies.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 184 creates criminal offences for reckless or dishonest breach of the good-faith/proper-purpose duty, and for dishonest use of position or information with intent or recklessness as to advantage or detriment.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 183 prohibits a person who obtained corporate information because they are or were a director, officer, or employee from improperly using that information to gain an advantage or cause detriment, and the duty continues after the role ends.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 182 prohibits a director, secretary, other officer, or employee from improperly using their position to gain an advantage for themselves or someone else, or to cause detriment to the corporation.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 181 requires a director or other officer to exercise powers and discharge duties in good faith in the best interests of the corporation and for a proper purpose.

claimFair Work Act 2009 (Cth) s 333M allows an employee to refuse to monitor, read or respond to employer or work-related third-party contact outside working hours unless the refusal is unreasonable, and treats those rights as workplace rights.

claimFair Work Act 2009 (Cth) s 323 requires an employer to pay amounts payable to an employee for work in full, in money by an authorised method, and at least monthly, subject to permitted deductions under s 324.

claimFair Work Act 2009 (Cth) s 327A makes it a criminal offence for an employer intentionally to engage in conduct that results in failing to pay a required employee amount in full by the due date, with penalties including up to 10 years imprisonment for an individual and fines based on penalty units or three times the underpayment amount.

claimCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 588G(3) makes insolvent trading a criminal offence only where the director suspected insolvency and the failure to prevent the company incurring the debt was dishonest; s 588G(2) is the civil contravention based on awareness, or reasonable-person awareness, of grounds for suspecting insolvency.

claimCurrent CCA s 76 and ACL Schedule 2 s 224 major civil penalty rows use $2,500,000 for a person who is not a body corporate and $100,000,000 as the first body-corporate benchmark, so Source rows showing $10,000,000 / $50,000,000 for CCA s 46, s 47, or ACL s 29 are stale as current-law summaries.

claimPrivacy Act s 26WL requires an entity that has prepared a compliant s 26WK statement for an eligible data breach to notify affected or at-risk individuals where practicable, or otherwise publish and publicise the statement, as soon as practicable.

claimPrivacy Act s 26WK requires an entity aware of reasonable grounds to believe it has had an eligible data breach to prepare a compliant statement and give a copy to the Information Commissioner as soon as practicable.

claimPrivacy Act s 16C can attribute an overseas recipient APP breach back to the disclosing APP entity when APP 8.1 applies and the overseas recipient act or practice would breach the APPs if they applied.

claimBefore an APP entity discloses personal information to an overseas recipient, APP 8.1 requires the entity to take reasonable steps in the circumstances to ensure the recipient does not breach the Australian Privacy Principles, except APP 1, unless an APP 8.2 exception applies.

claimCommonwealth WHS Act 2011 s 32 creates a Category 2 offence where a person with a health and safety duty fails to comply with that duty and the failure exposes an individual to a risk of death or serious injury or illness.

claimCommonwealth WHS Act 2011 s 27 requires an officer of a PCBU to exercise due diligence to ensure the PCBU complies with its WHS duties and obligations.

claimCommonwealth WHS Act 2011 s 19 requires a PCBU, so far as reasonably practicable, to ensure worker health and safety while workers are at work and to ensure other persons are not put at risk from work carried out as part of the business or undertaking.

claimCommonwealth WHS Act 2011 s 30A creates an industrial manslaughter offence for a PCBU or officer whose intentional breach of a health and safety duty causes death, where the person was reckless or negligent as to causing death.

claimCommonwealth WHS Act 2011 s 31 now defines Category 1 as negligence or reckless conduct exposing an individual to risk of death or serious injury or illness, with category 1 monetary penalties and possible 15 years imprisonment for individuals.

claimPrivacy Act 1988 (Cth) s 26WE defines an eligible data breach by serious-harm-likely unauthorised access/disclosure, or loss where unauthorised access/disclosure is likely and would be likely to result in serious harm.

claimA senior officer of a PCBU commits industrial manslaughter under WHS Act 2011 (Qld) s 34D if an individual to whom the PCBU has a health and safety duty dies or is injured and later dies, the officer's conduct causes the death, and the officer is negligent about causing that death.

claimA PCBU commits industrial manslaughter under WHS Act 2011 (Qld) s 34C if an individual to whom it has a health and safety duty dies or is injured and later dies, its conduct causes the death, and it is negligent about causing that death.

claimUS-origin items remain subject to EAR re-export controls after leaving the US — including when integrated into foreign products at or above the applicable de minimis threshold or under the incorporated-rules analysis.

claimQualifying defence-trade transfers between AUKUS partners may proceed licence-free under 22 CFR 126.7 provided the exporter, end user, and end use fall within the approved community and excluded-technology list.

claimUS-origin USML items / technical data require an ITAR licence or listed exemption; recipients are bound by re-transfer and re-export restrictions imposed via licence conditions or 22 CFR 123.9.

claimAn Australian recipient of ITAR-controlled material must not supply, transfer, or publish the item without the US-exporter's permission (or fall within an applicable AUKUS exemption) — the DTCA creates offences that mirror the ITAR re-transfer restrictions.

claimThe DTCA Amendment Act 2024 establishes the AU-side reciprocal framework for AUKUS defence trade — authorised-user status, foreign-supply permits, and strict-liability offences for non-compliance.

claimA re-export of an EAR-controlled item requires licence review against General Prohibitions (15 CFR 736) and End-User / End-Use Controls (15 CFR 744) — including denied-party and entity-list screens.

claimTranche-2 amendments expand AML/CTF coverage to lawyers, accountants, conveyancers, real-estate agents, and dealers in precious metals / stones providing designated services.

claimAn entity providing any of the 'designated services' listed in AML/CTF Act s 6 is a reporting entity with obligations under Parts 2-3 of the Act and the AML/CTF Rules.

claimCaptured Tranche-2 reporting entities must enrol with AUSTRAC by the commencement-date cohort, adopt an AML/CTF programme, and conduct CDD before providing designated services.

claimPersons dealing with counterparties in designated jurisdictions must screen against the DFAT consolidated list and UN Security Council lists before transacting.

claimAustralian persons must not engage in conduct prohibited by an autonomous-sanctions designation or declaration unless authorised by a DFAT-issued permit.

claimReporting entities must submit suspicious-matter reports (SMRs) within the prescribed time after forming the requisite suspicion, and IFTIs for cross-border funds transfers.

claimReporting entities must conduct applicable customer identification and ongoing due diligence; enhanced due diligence applies for higher-risk customers / PEPs.

claimPCBUs must identify psychosocial hazards and manage risk using the hierarchy of control — eliminate so far as reasonably practicable, otherwise minimise.

claimA PCBU commits industrial manslaughter where a worker dies in the course of carrying out work, the PCBU's negligent conduct causes the death, and the PCBU had a duty under Part 2 Div 2.

claimA PCBU must ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers — including psychological health — while they are at work in the business or undertaking.

claimDuty holders at a shared workplace must, so far as reasonably practicable, consult, co-operate and co-ordinate activities with all other persons who have a duty in relation to the same matter.

claimMore than one person can concurrently have the same duty under the model WHS Act; each must discharge it to the extent they have capacity to influence and control the matter.

claimThe WHS Act 2011 does not apply to work carried out in a QLD coal mine to the extent that the CMSHA 1999 applies — coal mines are regulated under the CMSHA regime.

claimA senior officer of a PCBU commits industrial manslaughter where the officer's negligent conduct causes a worker's death.

claimAn APP entity that discloses personal information to an overseas recipient is taken to have done the act or engaged in the practice that would breach the APPs if done by the Australian entity.

claimAn APP entity must not collect sensitive information about an individual unless the individual consents (or a narrow listed exception applies).

claimSensitive information is a defined sub-category of personal information (health, biometric, racial, political, religious, sexual orientation, union, criminal) attracting stricter collection and use rules under the APPs.

claimThe CDR privacy safeguards (13 safeguards) apply to CDR data and sit alongside the APPs — they are not a replacement but add sector-specific requirements around consent, use, and deletion.

claimThe Consumer Data Right framework under Competition and Consumer Act Part IVD governs designated sectors with obligations on data holders, accredited data recipients, and designated gateways.

claimBefore disclosing personal information to an overseas recipient, an APP entity must take reasonable steps to ensure the recipient does not breach the APPs, or fall within a listed exception.

claimAn APP entity that suffers an eligible data breach must notify the OAIC and affected individuals as soon as practicable via a prescribed statement.

claimAn eligible data breach occurs when there is unauthorised access, disclosure or loss of personal information likely to result in serious harm to affected individuals.

claimNon-corporate Commonwealth entities must use open tender for non-construction goods / services at or above $80k (ex GST) unless an exemption applies.

claimThe Responsible Use of AI Framework operationalises the QGov AI Governance Policy with concrete assessment steps, governance artefacts, and review gates.

claimQLD public-sector data must be classified (OFFICIAL / SENSITIVE / PROTECTED) under the ISMF; classification drives storage, transmission, and access controls.

claimQLD government ICT contracts are formed under the QITC Framework's General Contract Conditions plus Module Orders and Schedules appropriate to the engagement.

claimQITC tiering (Bespoke, Comprehensive, SME) determines which module set applies based on contract value and risk profile.

claimAll Commonwealth procurements must achieve value for money, efficient / ethical conduct, non-discrimination, and accountability per CPR Division 1.

claimQLD agencies deploying AI systems must follow the QGov AI Governance Policy — risk assessment, human oversight, explainability, and ongoing monitoring.

claimA person must not carry out an activity that causes, or is likely to cause, environmental harm unless they take all reasonable and practicable measures to prevent or minimise the harm.

claimMining and quarrying in Queensland are ERAs requiring an Environmental Authority under the EP Act 1994, with conditions addressing air, water, waste, rehabilitation.

claimQLD non-coal mines and quarries must comply with MQSHA 1999 — risk-management plan, competent persons, safety-and-health obligation.

claimHPIs and serious accidents at QLD coal mines must be reported immediately to the inspector by the SSE, followed by a written report per CMSHA s 201.

claimCompetency certificates and site-specific notices are issued by the Board of Examiners for statutory safety roles under the CMSHA 1999.

claimEach QLD coal mine must have an appointed Site Senior Executive (SSE) holding a current SSE notice issued by the Board of Examiners.

claimMineral tenure in Queensland is structured as EPM (exploration), MDL (development), and ML (mining) under the Mineral Resources Act 1989.

claimJapan's JOGMEC operates a 60-day rare-metals strategic stockpile under METI policy and takes equity positions in overseas critical-minerals projects (including Australian rare-earth separation) to secure off-take.

claimThe EU Critical Raw Materials Act (Regulation 2024/1252) sets binding 2030 benchmarks for EU extraction (10%), processing (40%), recycling (25%) and single-country sourcing (<=65%) of strategic raw materials, with faster permitting for designated Strategic Projects.

claimThe Quad Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group coordinates critical-minerals supply-chain diversification between Australia, India, Japan and the United States, spanning reserve mapping, trade-restriction information sharing, ESG standards and export-credit alignment.

claimAUKUS partners have formally designated Australia as a domestic source for DPA Title III purposes via the May 2023 Australia-US Climate, Critical Minerals and Clean Energy Transformation Compact, coordinating trilateral critical-minerals supply-chain investment.

claimChina accounts for approximately 70 percent of global rare-earth mine production and over 85 percent of separation / refining capacity per USGS and IEA data, with accelerating export controls on rare-earth processing technology since 2023.

claimChina supplies roughly 80 percent of global antimony (mine production and refining) per USGS data, and in August 2024 announced export licensing on antimony and its compounds effective 15 September 2024.

claimThe US Critical Minerals List (USGS, under 30 USC 1606) identifies 50 non-fuel minerals essential to US economic and national security with disruption-vulnerable supply chains, updated at least every three years.

claimAustralia's Critical Minerals Strategy 2023-2030 names 31 critical minerals (including antimony, rare earths, lithium and graphite) and allocates AUD 4bn via Export Finance Australia's Critical Minerals Facility to unlock downstream processing.

claimThe Buy American Act 1933 (41 USC 8301-8305) requires federal agencies to prefer domestic end products in procurement, with the domestic-content threshold rising to 75% by 2029 under the 2022 amendments.

claimThe Inflation Reduction Act conditions the IRC § 30D clean-vehicle credit on critical-minerals content sourced from the US or a US free-trade-agreement partner (explicitly including Australia) and excludes content sourced from Foreign Entities of Concern.

claimCFIUS, reformed by FIRRMA 2018, reviews foreign acquisitions of US businesses in critical technology, critical infrastructure, sensitive personal data and covered real-estate near national-security sites, with mandatory declarations for specified transactions.

claimDPA Title III (50 USC 4531-4533) authorises the President to fund expansion of US domestic industrial capacity for defence-essential materials through purchase commitments, guarantees and plant-expansion grants.

claimCalifornia SMARA (PRC §§ 2710-2796) requires surface-mining operators in California to obtain a local lead-agency permit, approved Reclamation Plan and financial assurance, overseen by the State Geologist and State Mining and Geology Board.

claimDFARS 252.225-7052 and the underlying specialty-metals statute (10 USC 4863) restrict DoD acquisition of end items containing non-domestic specialty metals including antimony, tungsten, samarium-cobalt and NdFeB magnets.

claimBLM 43 CFR 3809 regulates hardrock mining on federal land via the Notice / Plan-of-Operations regime, triggering NEPA review, reclamation bonding and Tribal consultation.

claimNEPA (42 USC 4321+) requires federal agencies to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for major federal actions significantly affecting the human environment, implemented via 40 CFR 1500-1508.

claimEAR (15 CFR 730-774) controls US commercial and dual-use exports via ECCN classification on the Commerce Control List, with licence determinations driven by destination, end-user and end-use analysis administered by BIS.

claimITAR (22 CFR 120-130) controls the export, re-export and brokering of US Munitions List articles, services, and technical data — including deemed exports to foreign persons inside the US — with criminal penalties up to 20 years imprisonment.

claimThe NSLA EFI Act 2018 inserted modern espionage, foreign-interference and sabotage offences into the Commonwealth Criminal Code and complements the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme.

claimThe Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011 (Cth) authorises Australia's targeted financial, travel and sectoral sanctions, extended in 2021 to thematic Magnitsky-style designations.

claimThe WMD Act 1995 (Cth) applies a catch-all prohibition on supplying goods, services or technology where the supplier knows or ought to suspect the end-use involves a WMD programme, beyond the listed-goods DSGL regime.

claimThe Safeguards Act 1987 (Cth) implements Australia's NPT and IAEA obligations and controls possession, transport and communication of nuclear material and technology.

claimAUKUS Pillar 2 is the trilateral framework for advanced-capability technology transfer between Australia, the UK and the US, operationalised via reciprocal national export-control exemptions.

claimThe Customs Act 1901 s 112 and Prohibited Exports Regulations 1958 criminalise unauthorised export of DSGL-listed goods from Australia with penalties up to 10 years imprisonment.

claimJORC Code 2012 mandates Competent Person sign-off and Inferred/Indicated/Measured classification for public resource statements by ASX-listed mining companies, via ASX Listing Rule 5.6.

claimASX Listing Rule 3.1 requires immediate disclosure to the market of information a reasonable person would expect to materially affect the price or value of an entity's securities, backed by Corporations Act s 674.

claimAcquisitions of Australian businesses operating in listed critical-technology sectors (including critical minerals) trigger mandatory FIRB notification under FATA s 55B, irrespective of monetary threshold.

claimDISP membership is the Australian Government's minimum security-accreditation baseline for industry access to classified Defence information, assets and contracts.

claimThe DSGL defines the goods and technology whose export from Australia requires a permit under the DTCA 2012 and Customs Act 1901 prohibited-exports regime.

claimThe Defence Trade Controls Act 2012 (Cth) requires a permit for the supply, brokering or publication of DSGL-listed defence and dual-use technology out of Australia, with criminal penalties up to 10 years imprisonment.

claimThe SI second is defined by fixing the numerical value of the caesium-133 hyperfine transition frequency to 9,192,631,770 when expressed in hertz (Hz).