引言 25年来,有两件大事影响了新南威尔士矿山监察员的作用。一是矿业法的彻底修改,这与采矿和勘探权有关;另一是威廉斯调查,它导致所有矿山监察员都从矿产资源部(1977年以前为矿山部)转到了工业关系部。此外还有一些条例上的更改和修正,这也影响了矿山监察员行使其职责的程序。 For two decades, two major events have affected the role of the New South Wales Mine Ombudsman. One is a radical change to the mining law, which is related to mining and exploration rights; the other is the Williams investigation that led all mine ombudspersons to move from the Department of Mineral Resources (formerly the Ministry of Mines to 1977) to the Industrial Relations Department. In addition, there are some changes and amendments to the ordinance that affect the procedures in which mine ombudsmen perform their duties.