Our major reports are the result of painstaking research and investigation, sometimes taking months or even years. They drive and inform our work. We encourage you to download them. We also have hard copies available: email us at info@jubileeaustralia.org

Community Consent:

 

This 2019 report examines the environmental and social impacts of the Frieda River mine and the views of local communities regarding the mine.

 

Mining and Development: Bougainville

 

This 2020 briefing paper explores proposed changes to the Bougainville Mining Act, finding that the amendments undermine the principle of landowner consent, and could lead to significant impacts on the rights of the people of Bougainville and their environment.

 

 

This report examines the choice facing the people of Bougainville and asks the question of ‘to mine or not to mine’?

This 2015 report outlines the serious deficiencies in the new Bougainville Mining Law and what the law might mean for the people of Bougainville.

This controversial 2014 report explores the views of the communities living around the Panguna mine, site of our region's most bloody civil war, to their past, their present and their future.

Mining and Development: PNG LNG

This May 2018 report examines the impacts of the PNG LNG project on the local communities. It finds undelivered development promises, a frustrated community, and increasing risks of violence.

This April 2018 Report compares the predictions about PNG LNG's impacts on the national economy with the actual economic results. It finds that PNG LNG has contributed to PNG going backwards on most economic indicators.

This detailed 2012 report about PNG LNG predicted many of the problems that the huge gas project in the Southern Highlands region would bring to the country, and examines how the Australian government made taxpayers investors in the project.

Economic Justice: Debt

This 2019 report critiques the proposed Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific, arguing that the rationale for the scheme has been made on faulty premises, that the proposed architecture is inadequate and that the process in bringing legislation to make the scheme a reality has been rushed. 

This 2011 Report outlines why the rules of international sovereign debt are skewed in favour of rich countries and against poor countries. It also describes how a fairer model could work and what it would look like.

Corporate Accountability: Efic

This 2009 report examines the status of our export credit agency and its role in supporting extractive industry projects in our region.

Land and Forests

This 2019 briefing paper detail how the summit organized on May 1-3 2019 is an attempt by the PNG government to ‘mobilize’ customary land to allow greater access to multinational companies and commercial banks for logging, mining, and industrial agriculture leases. The paper is a joint collaboration between The Oakland Institute and Jubilee Australia. 

This 2010 Report explores the role that the IMF and World Bank have played in supporting deforestation and land grabbing in PNG and Indonesia.