Department

Copyright

Unless it is indicated to the contrary in an individual submission, copyright in submissions addressed to the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (the Department), representing the Commonwealth of Australia, resides in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Submissions are received on condition that the party making the submission:

• has obtained licences from any other parties having intellectual property rights in material incorporated into a submission to permit the Commonwealth of Australia at no cost to use, reproduce, adapt, modify and communicate that third party intellectual property to the world at large in perpetuity;
• indemnifies the Commonwealth of Australia for any liability that may arise as a result of infringement by the Commonwealth of Australia of third party intellectual property rights caused by the failure of the party making the submission to obtain all relevant licences from such third parties;
• indemnifies the Commonwealth of Australia for any liability that may arise as a result of failure by the party making the submissions to obtain all relevant moral rights or privacy consents.

Unless a submission or comment is provided in confidence, in which case it is dealt with as described below, the Commonwealth of Australia grants a creative commons licence to the community at large in respect of all submissions and comments. The creative commons licence has the following features:

The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia Licence.

Members of the public are free to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work under the following conditions:

1. They must attribute the work to the Commonwealth of Australia.
2. They may not use this work for commercial purposes.
3. They may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
4. However:
   • Waiver — Any of the above conditions can be waived if they get permission from the copyright holder.
   • Public Domain — Where the work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the licence.
   • In no way are any of the following rights affected by the licence: fair dealing or fair use rights, other applicable copyright exceptions and limitations, the author's moral rights, rights other persons may have either in the work itself or in how the work is used, such as publicity or privacy rights.
5. For any reuse or distribution, they must make clear to others the licence terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.

Confidential submissions and Comments

Where a respondent submits a statement in writing and in confidence the Department will, as far as possible, treat the statement as confidential.

However, certain exceptions apply. These exceptions apply where some or all of a submission or comment is disclosed:

1. by the Commonwealth to the responsible Minister;
2. by the Commonwealth, in response to a request by a House or a Committee of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia;
3. by the Commonwealth within the Department, or with another Commonwealth agency, where this serves the Commonwealth's legitimate interests;
4. by the Commonwealth to the Auditor General, Ombudsman or Privacy Commissioner;
5. as required by Law; or

where the information in the public domain otherwise than due to a breach of these confidentiality undertakings.

Disclaimer

In publishing a submission on a Commonwealth of Australia website or in any other medium the Commonwealth is not to be taken to endorse, support, warrant or guarantee any comment, statement or point of view expressed or implied in any submission.

The Commonwealth reserves the right to remove inappropriate or offensive materials contained in individual submissions.