MPI Mining Monitor – July 2013

August 1, 2013
Papua New Guinea Special July’s mining monitor is a Papua New Guinea [PNG] special, inspired, or perhaps driven by the sudden focus on PNG due to the political crisis surrounding boat arrivals. But let’s start with some good news – MPI’s PNG documentary, Hidden Valley, has been selected for...

Rudd’s hard-line approach will be disastrous

August 1, 2013
The plan to send all boat-arriving asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea — and to resettle there all who qualify as genuine refugees — is a cynical abandonment by Australia of its responsibilities under the UN refugee convention, one that can be considered only a ploy for votes in...