Ground Truths; Taking Responsibility for Australia’s mining legacies
MPI is pleased to release Ground Truths; Taking responsibility for Australia’s mining legacies. The report sets out to explain some of the current and potential impacts of Australia’s mining legacies to Australians. The aim was to bring the reality of mining legacies, often hidden by geographical remoteness or simply...
Dilemmas of Development: Mining at Porgera, Papua New Guinea
Even before the perfect storm of expansionary government spending and record low commodity prices threatened Papua New Guinea’s resource dependent economy, questions were being asked about the impact of mining-led development. Inspired by Jerry Jacka’s recent publication Uneven development in the Papua New Guinea highlands: Mining, corporate social responsibility,...