New Zealand Minerals Council works to ensure decision-makers in central and local government understand the value of responsible mining and the contribution it makes to the wellbeing of New Zealanders.
This involves conversations, submissions, and appearing before committees to present facts and evidence in response to Government policy, rules, regulations, and law changes, and local government plans.
Local Government Simplification
The issue is important to the mining sector for two principal reasons. Firstly, miners are among the highest paying ratepayers...
Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill
This submission covers both bills together as suggested by the committee. It canvasses high-level views on the policy intent of...
Taxation and the not-for-profit sector
We are focusing our submission on Chapter 3 – Membership subscriptions and related matters for taxable not-for-profit organisations.
Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill
We support the Fast-track Approvals Act as a way to reduce unnecessary duplication, complexity and delay in the consent application...
Draft Tertiary Education Strategy
We are commenting here on the document Tertiary Education Strategy – Draft for targeted sector consultation. First, we provide some...
Proposal to replace NCEA with new national qualifications
This is important to us as the NCEA/secondary school education system is crucial for providing the skilled workforce that the...
We are commenting here on the National Conservation Policy Statement document (the document) as well as the Modernisation of Land...
We generally support the bill, which improves the Overseas Investment Act and aims to reduce compliance costs and make decision...
The Government is consulting on new and amended national direction packages to improve operation of the resource management system under...
We support the objective of the bill to stop the debanking of certain sectors/activities on illegitimate grounds.
