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The Australian Government is committed to creating a policy framework to expand Australia's resource base, increase the international competitiveness of our resources sector and improve the regulatory regime, consistent with the principles of environmental responsibility and sustainable development.
Stewardship Handbook

Stewardship involves the care and management of a commodity through its life cycle. Stewardship needs to be an integrated program of actions aimed at ensuring that all materials, processes, goods and services are managed throughout the life cycle in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.

Stewardship is an evolving concept within the mining industry aimed at building partnerships throughout the life cycle of materials to ensure sustainability of their production, use and disposal. While participants in each sector have a responsibility for stewardship in their specific industry, it is a fundamental principle of stewardship that those participants also have a concern in the other industries of the life cycle.

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