It’s not a gift, it’s a trap: new analysis shows where Australian gas sold to Japan really ends up (and it’s not Tokyo)
Latest News,
Climate Justice
Release Date: 20 Sep 2024
According to a new analysis by DataDesk and commissioned by Jubilee Australia, far from “keeping the lights on in Tokyo,” Australian gas that is sold to Japan is onsold to other countries, often against the interests of the receiving countries.
Environment and human rights groups call on Parliament to strengthen Australia’s illegal logging laws
Latest News,
Land and forests
Release Date: 07 Jun 2024
Four environmental, human rights and faith groups have expressed support for a Bill that would strengthen prohibitions on importing wood that has been illegally logged. However, they are disappointed that the Bill has missed the opportunity to explicitly prohibit timber produced with the involvement of bribes, fraud and tax evasion from entering Australia.
Fifty civil society groups call on EFA to rule out financing Papua LNG
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA
Release Date: 13 Dec 2023
In the wake of Australia signing the CETP at COP28, a group of fifty civil society groups have issued an open letter to Export Finance Australia calling on it rule out financing the proposed Papua LNG project.
COP28: Australia finally signs on to the Clean Energy Transition Partnership, a first step to phasing out fossil fuels
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA,
Aid and development
Release Date: 05 Dec 2023
Breaking news from COP28 in Dubai as the Australian government commits to the Clean Energy Transition Partnership.
Pacific leaders urge Australia to stop financing fossil fuels through foreign aid and export finance
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA
Release Date: 04 Dec 2023
As the world heads to Dubai for COP28 a group of Pacific climate leaders have issued a joint statement to the Australian government, urging them to take the opportunity to sign onto the Clean Energy Transition Partnership.
Project Sepik and Jubilee Australia Welcome Findings from Human Rights Body on the Freida River Mine
Latest News,
Save the Sepik
Release Date: 06 Oct 2023
Communities from Papua New Guinea’s Sepik region have today welcomed the findings of an Australian human rights body, which will pave the way for them to have a say on a giant copper and gold mine proposed to be built on their doorstep.
Jubilee Australia Supports ‘Yes’
Latest News
Release Date: 25 Sep 2023
Jubilee Australia supports the movement to say ‘Yes’ in the upcoming referendum on the Voice on 14 October.
Forest Clearing Authorities used as a front for illegal logging: new report
Latest News,
Land and forests
Release Date: 06 Sep 2023
Forest Clearing Authorities are being unlawfully used to facilitate large-scale logging operations by foreign-owned logging companies according to a new report published today by ACT NOW!, in collaboration with Jubilee Australia Research Centre. The new report focuses on the Wammy logging operation in West Sepik Province.
New Australian aid agenda prioritising climate action welcome but risks being undermined by government financing to overseas fossil fuels
Latest News,
Climate Justice
Release Date: 09 Aug 2023
With the release of the government's International Development Policy we are seeing increased focus on climate change and gender equality. However the government risks compromising this valuable work with its continued financing of fossil fuels via Australia's foreign aid program.
Australian Government Agencies sued for failing to report the climate and biodiversity impacts of subsidising fossil fuel projects
Climate Justice
Release Date: 18 Jul 2023
Jubilee Australia, represented by Equity Generation Lawyers, has filed legal proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against EFA and NAIF. These government agencies subsidise new fossil fuel projects but don’t disclose the full environmental impacts of those activities.
Minister Bowen calls for MDB financing to align with Paris targets, yet the government can take action to make this a reality.
Latest News,
Climate Justice
Release Date: 30 Jun 2023
MDBs cannot achieve a pathway to net zero if their shareholders in governments don’t take action to implement this change. Jubilee Australia and ActionAid Australia have identified the three key steps Australia must take to align government action with Minister Bowen’s vision.
Climate and Environment Response to Federal Government's Critical Minerals Strategy
Latest News,
Climate Justice
Release Date: 29 Jun 2023
Civil society groups from the climate and environment movement have come together in a joint response to welcome the government's Critical Minerals Strategy - though serious regulation of transition mineral mining is required to ensure the least amount of damage is done to the environment and communities.
“Elephant in the room” – government’s Critical Minerals Strategy a first step, but falls short of addressing demand projections at the heart of the issue
Latest News,
Climate Justice
Release Date: 22 Jun 2023
Jubilee Australia Research Centre has responded to the federal government’s Critical Minerals Strategy 2023 – 2030. Jubilee Australia Research Centre advocates for evidence-based policy and improvements across Australia’s transition minerals policy landscape.
Australian aid dollars contributing to fossil fuels in Asia Pacific
Release Date: 01 Jun 2023
Australian aid dollars are helping to build new fossil fuelled power stations in Indonesia and Bangladesh even as the Albanese Government switches off our own fleet of coal powered energy assets. A new report finds international banks like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which use Australian taxpayer dollars to support developing countries, have clandestinely pumped nearly $33 billion over five years into polluting projects all over the world.
Environment and aid groups call on the Australian government to sign the Glasgow Statement
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA
Release Date: 01 Jun 2023
More than twenty environment, aid and development groups have come together to call on the Australian Government to sign the Glasgow Statement, ending public financing of fossil fuel exports and redirecting that financing to renewable energy.
PNG and Australian lenders providing millions to companies involved in destructive rainforest logging
Latest News,
Land and forests,
Illegal logging
Release Date: 10 May 2023
In the last eight years, two finance companies and one equipment retailer have provided financing to at least 15 companies that are logging in PNG’s rainforests, new research by Act Now! and Jubilee Australia reveals. These loans are likely to have helped companies buy the bulldozers and trucks used to destroy millions of hectares of tropical rainforest.
Australia risks over-extracting transition minerals amid mining rush
Latest News,
Mining,
Climate Justice
Release Date: 04 May 2023
Australia is at risk of over-extracting key transition minerals by relying on overblown demand projections, according to a new report which warns policy steps to encourage responsible and sustainable use of critical minerals, such as a stronger commitment to recycling EV batteries, are being overlooked.
PNG can improve energy access and reduce carbon emissions simultaneously
Latest News,
Climate Justice
Release Date: 25 Jan 2023
PNG can both improve energy access while also meeting its commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce carbon emissions in the energy sector, a new report by Papua New Guinean environmental group Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR) and the Sydney-based Jubilee Australia Research Centre has found.
Defend the Tiwi voice
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 19 Dec 2022
Earlier this year, Tiwi Island Munupi Clan Elder Dennis Tipaklippa took Santos’ Barossa offshore gas project to Court and won, because even though Dennis and his Clan are the most impacted by planned offshore drilling activities, Santos did not consult them at all.
Alarm at reports Australian Government considering spending public money on Santos LNG project
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA,
EFA
Release Date: 12 Dec 2022
Environment groups have written an open letter to the federal Trade Minister Don Farrell, calling on him to stop public spending on fossil fuels, after it was reported by Reuters last week that the Australian Government was considering giving a loan to the PNG Government to acquire a billion dollar stake in a Santos LNG project.
Australia’s Pacific financing plan not fit for purpose
Latest News,
Aid and development,
Sustainable economies
Release Date: 28 Nov 2022
Australia’s $4 billion program to fund new infrastructure in the Pacific lacks transparency, is failing to support the region's greatest needs such as climate adaptation/loss and damage and poverty alleviation, and risks driving extractive development in the region, according to a new report by environmental and human rights organisation Jubilee Australia Research Centre.
Human rights complaint filed over Newcrest’s plans to dump waste in PNG
Mining
Release Date: 09 Nov 2022
Today, three organisations filed a complaint against two Australian-based mining companies, Newcrest Mining and Harmony Gold Mining, over the proposal to dump toxic mining waste into the Huon Gulf in PNG’s Morobe Province. The companies are seeking to have a Special Mining Lease approved for the project, the Wafi Golpu Mine, by 2 December 2022 - less than a month from now.
Nearly 70% of PNG’s log exports can be traced to just ten Malaysian-linked corporate groupings
Land and forests,
Illegal logging
Release Date: 06 Oct 2022
Nearly 70% of Papua New Guinea’s round log exports between 2019 and 2021 were concentrated in the hands of just ten groups of companies, all with strong links to Malaysia, according to new research by Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre.
Storm brewing over Pacific as climate and debt crises collide
Climate Justice,
Changing PNG’s development path,
Sustainable economies,
Drop the debt
Release Date: 04 Oct 2022
The Pacific region is facing a perfect storm of climate change induced disasters and skyrocketing debt burdens as communities are still reeling from the shocks of COVID-19 and the international cost of living crisis, according to a new report. This could lead to unprecedented economic instability in Australia’s neighbourhood without immediate intervention.
Say no to Wafi-Golpu DSTP
Latest News,
Mining
Release Date: 15 Sep 2022
Following the deadly earthquake on Sunday 11 September 2022 measuring a magnitude of 7.6, with the epicenter in Morobe Province, a coalition of PNG and Australian civil society organisations are calling for all levels of government to pause all moves to progress the Wafi-Golpu mine project until this geological phenomenon is fully understood, and until communities of Morobe Province have been adequately consulted, including being made aware of the risks of DSTP to their communities, livelihoods and health.
Australian government body accepts PNG community’s complaint over Frieda River Mine
Latest News,
Save the Sepik
Release Date: 26 Jul 2022
The Australian National Contact Point (AusNCP) for an international standard on responsible business conduct has agreed to investigate a complaint lodged on behalf of thousands of people in Papua New Guinea who say they have not given consent for Pan Aust to build an enormous copper and gold mine in their area.
We're recruiting! Communications and Engagement Manager
Latest News
Release Date: 14 Jul 2022
We're seeking a Communications and Engagement Manager, who will oversee Jubilee's public-facing communications with supporters and other partners.
New report examines the scramble for mineral resources in Bougainville
Latest News,
Mining,
Growing Bougainville’s future
Release Date: 01 Jun 2022
A new report, published today by Jubilee Australia Research Centre, outlines how the Autonomous Region of Bougainville has become the target of a scramble for resources. The region, which is pursuing independence from Papua New Guinea, has attracted mining and minerals exploration companies from around the world, drawn by its valuable copper and gold reserves.
Australia must shift public finance away from fossil fuels: groups target Export Finance Australia’s board
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA,
Changing Australia,
EFA,
Public finance of fossil fuels
Release Date: 05 May 2022
Sixteen organisations including Jubilee Australia, Oxfam, the Australia Institute and the Australian Conservation Foundation have sent a joint letter to the board of Export Finance Australia calling on them to direct the government agency to stop financing coal, oil and gas industries.
Act Now! and Jubilee welcome news of BSP closing 30 logging bank accounts
Latest News,
Illegal logging
Release Date: 20 Apr 2022
Research and advocacy organisations Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre have welcomed news that Papua New Guinea's largest bank has closed the accounts of 30 logging companies operating in the country.
Pacific Islands demand debt solutions from creditors
Latest News,
Sustainable economies,
Drop the debt
Release Date: 04 Apr 2022
Pacific Island nations are facing a serious debt crisis worsened by the pandemic and the resulting shutdown of the tourism industry. Jubilee has published a report about it alongside our partners ahead of this week’s Pacific debt conference in Suva, Fiji.
CSOs call for halt to Wafi-Golpu mine approvals as community do not yet consent
Latest News,
Mining
Release Date: 01 Apr 2022
Today, a coalition of PNG and Australian civil society organisations called on the proponents of the Wafi-Golpu mine to stop progression of the mine because the project has not yet gained the consent of communities in Morobe Province.
Tiwi, Larrakia Traditional Owners take South Korean Government to court to stop offshore gas project
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Public finance of fossil fuels,
Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 23 Mar 2022
Tiwi Islander and Larrakia Traditional Owners are taking the South Korean government’s export credit agencies to court to prevent them from financing Santos and SK E&S’ dirty offshore Barossa gas project.
What we achieved last year: Annual Report 2021
Latest News
Release Date: 01 Mar 2022
Last year, companies continued to try to push ahead with big projects in the pursuit of profit – with no concern for those who stand to lose out from their actions. But Jubilee Australia, alongside our partners around the world, has been pushing back. We've outlined this work in our Annual Report 2021, published today.
Sepik River communities file human rights complaint against Australian company PanAust over its proposed Gold-Copper mine
Release Date: 09 Dec 2021
2,638 people from 64 villages along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea have filed a complaint with the Australian Government against Brisbane-based PanAust Limited, for failing to obtain their consent to the proposed Frieda River Mine. If built, the mine would be the largest ever in Papua New Guinea and among the largest mines in the world.
New research reveals how commercial banks have supported PNG’s destructive logging boom
Latest News,
Land and forests,
Illegal logging
Release Date: 01 Dec 2021
Commercial banks operating in Papua New Guinea have given at least $144 million (K300 million) in available credit, since 2000, to the country’s five largest exporters of tropical logs, a new report by Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre has revealed.
Community struggling to access water and basic needs years after eviction
Changing PNG’s development path,
Land and forests,
Paga Hill
Release Date: 09 Nov 2021
Research by Jubilee Australia Research Centre, Aid/Watch Australia and the Paga Hill community finds that a Port Moresby community who were evicted at the behest of an Australian-tied company are still struggling to access basic needs and rights, years later.
Papua New Guinea leads on climate targets, lags on action
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Changing PNG’s development path,
Nogat Coal
Release Date: 04 Nov 2021
In a briefing paper outlining PNG’s progress towards its climate targets, the Nogat Coal alliance ‒ made up of PNG’s Nogat Coal and the Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights, and Jubilee Australia Research Centre ‒ acknowledged the country's strong stance on climate action but urged the government to back its goals with concrete steps to achieve them.
Australian Government blocks climate action, helps foreign governments exploit Australian fossil fuels
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Public finance of fossil fuels,
Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 04 Nov 2021
Over the past decade, public financial institutions overseas have pumped $AUD36.7 billion into Australian fossil fuel projects, according to a paper published by Jubilee Australia Research Centre, the Australian Conservation Foundation, South Korea’s Solutions for Our Climate and the Japan Centre for a Sustainable Environment and Society. The report shows how the Australian Government has blocked international efforts to limit fossil fuel financing, while over the last decade it has facilitated foreign bankrolling of the Australian fossil fuel industry to the tune of $AUD36.7 billion.
Civil society raises alarm amid reports Australia pushing Asian Development Bank to keep funding fossil fuels
Climate Justice,
Changing Australia,
Aid and development,
Sustainable economies
Release Date: 06 Oct 2021
35 civil society organisations, including Jubilee Australia and ActionAid Australia, have written an open letter to the Australian Government urging it to support the ADB’s transition away from financing and supporting fossil fuel projects to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Challenging extractive models of development at the 2021 Research for Development Impact Conference
Mining,
Climate Justice,
Changing PNG’s development path,
Nogat Coal
Release Date: 15 Sep 2021
Across the Pacific region, the large-scale extraction of natural resources – including timber, minerals, oil and gas - is often presented as the clearest pathway towards economic development and improved wellbeing for citizens. However, extractive operations have repeatedly failed to deliver the improved livelihoods they promised and have been accompanied by dispossession, environmental destruction, abuses of human rights and offshoring of profits.
Rebutting the claims made by Sam Basil about coal-fired power in PNG
Climate Justice,
Nogat Coal
Release Date: 13 Aug 2021
PNG’s Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil from Morobe Province is one of the strongest supporters of coal in PNG. In June of this year, he made a speech where he defended his support of coal-fired power for PNG. His speech was riddled with claims that do not stack up. In this blog post, we challenge them.
Jubilee Australia Welcomes Commitment from Rio Tinto to Assess the Destructive Impacts of the Panguna Mine
Clean up Panguna
Release Date: 21 Jul 2021
Today, Rio Tinto announced that it will fund an independent assessment of the environmental and social impacts of its Panguna Mine in Bougainville. This is a result of a human rights complaint filed by the Human Rights Law Centre on behalf of Bougainville communities.
Corporate Cane Toad Award 2021: Rio Tinto and Mayur Resources receive Australia’s most toxic award
Clean up Panguna,
Climate Justice,
Nogat Coal
Release Date: 09 Jul 2021
Melbourne, July 9th - Rio Tinto and Mayur Resources were awarded the Corporate Cane Toad Award for their roles in contributing to environmental destruction and/or human rights violations worldwide. The winners were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne after a month of public voting in which over 1,000 people voted for the six companies nominated.
Lenders of last resort? Australia poised to use public money to help coal, oil and gas as private lenders flee
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA,
EFA
Release Date: 06 Jul 2021
A new report by Jubilee Australia has found that Australia’s export credit agency has given around 80 times more financing to fossil fuels than it is to renewables. And that trend could continue, as Trade Minister Tehan on 24 June announced forthcoming changes to legislation which could give EFA even more ways to finance fossil fuel projects. Between 2009 and 2020, Export Finance Australia (EFA) provided financing of up to $1.69 billion to coal, oil and gas but only $20 million to renewables.
Statement from Jubilee Australia, Caritas Fiji and Fiji Council of Social Services in relation to Amex Resources Limited advertisement
Latest News,
Mining,
Black sand mining in Fiji
Release Date: 23 Jun 2021
On 19 June 2021, Amex Resources Limited (ARL) published a four-page advertisement in the Fiji Sun entitled “Amex Resources Limited – Response to NGO’s Allegations”. The statement responds to A Line in the Sand, a report published by Jubilee Australia, Caritas Fiji and Fiji Council of Social Services (FCOSS) on 26 May 2021. The report discusses the company’s black sand mining project in the Ba river delta on Viti Levu. Jubilee Australia, Caritas Fiji and FCOSS stand by the report and its recommendations and publish this statement in response.
Australian Civil Society says: ‘South Korea, stop funding fossil fuel projects in australia’
Climate Justice,
Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 27 May 2021
Today, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, in conjunction with the Environment Centre NT and Jubilee Australia Research Centre organised a protest outside the Korean embassy calling on Korea to stop funding fossil fuel projects in Australia. Korean public financial institutions have provided more than AUD4 billion to gas projects in Australia over the last decade.
Local and international groups raise the alarm about black sand mining in Fiji
Latest News,
Mining,
Black sand mining in Fiji
Release Date: 26 May 2021
Today three community development and human rights groups, Jubilee Australia Research Centre, Fiji Council for Social Services and Caritas Fiji, released a new report raising the alarm about Australian companies engaging in black sand mining in Fiji.
New award names and shames the biggest corporate cane toads
Latest News,
Clean up Panguna,
Nogat Coal
Release Date: 24 May 2021
Friends of the Earth Australia, Jubilee Australia and ActionAid Australia just launched the Cane Toad Awards - a brand-new award ceremony aiming to name and shame Australian corporations behaving badly.
Webinar outlines why the Barossa project is worth worrying about
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA,
EFA,
Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 12 May 2021
The Barossa Project is a new large scale and high risk gas project that will draw gas from an offshore field located in pristine marine waters 100km north of the Tiwi Islands. Jubilee Australia spoke at a webinar, organised by Environment Centre NT, on the role of export credit agencies in financing this project and what civil society is doing to oppose this.
Export credit agencies and states potentially at risk of climate litigation over finance for fossil fuels
Latest News,
Climate proof EFA,
EFA
Release Date: 04 May 2021
Export credit agencies (ECAs) – and the governments that oversee them – could be in violation of their international legal obligations if they do not take action to reduce their financing of fossil fuel-related activities imminently. That is the main conclusion of a new legal opinion published today, two days before ministers gather at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue. The opinion, which was commissioned by Oil Change International, for the first time lays out the international law obligations of ECAs that are responsible for tens of billions of dollars per year in support for fossil fuels.
‘Australia needs to end official financing for fossil fuel exports’ say Australian CSOs
Latest News,
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA,
EFA,
Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 22 Apr 2021
A group of Australian Civil Society (CSOs) sent an open letter to Minister Dan Tehan yesterday, calling for Australia to join governments worldwide who are moving away from using export finance to fund fossil fuel projects.
Public Statement by CSOs on the Launch of the Export Finance for Future: Export Finance Leadership Coalition Fails to Lead
Climate Justice,
Climate proof EFA,
EFA
Release Date: 16 Apr 2021
On 14 April 2021, governments from Europe and the UK launched the Export Finance for Future (E3F) coalition. We, the undersigned civil society organisations from around the world, welcome this as a step in the right direction. Nonetheless, we urge these self-proclaimed leaders to show a higher level of ambition. The principles committed to by this coalition fail to adequately address export finance for fossil fuels and, as such, fail to address the urgency of the climate crisis.
Environmental, Research and Policy Groups Sound Alarm on Announcement About Santos’ Barossa Gas Field
Climate Justice,
Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 30 Mar 2021
The Jubilee Australia Research Centre, the Australia Institute, and the Environment Centre NT have sounded the alarm about Santos’ announcement that a final investment decision has been made on its high risk and dirty Barossa project.
New Report Lists Six Reasons Why Frieda River Mine Should Not Go Ahead
Save the Sepik,
Mining
Release Date: 14 Mar 2021
Project Sepik and Jubilee Australia Research Centre released a new report today on the dangers posed by the proposed Frieda River Mine to the Sepik River and urged its rejection by Papua New Guinean government authorities. The report is titled The Sukundimi Walks Before Me, in reference to the river spirit that Sepik people believe dwells in and protects the river.
Jubilee Australia Calls on the Australian Government to Support Poor Countries' Access to COVID-19 Vaccines.
Aid and development
Release Date: 10 Mar 2021
It is predicted that more than 85 poor countries will not have access to widespread COVID-19 vaccines until 2023 due to intellectual property laws. Together with several other Australian civil society organisations, we are urging the Australian Government to support a proposal that would waive some of the intellectual property laws' provisions.
Civil Society and Human Rights Defenders in the Pacific
Mining,
Climate Justice,
Land and forests
Release Date: 01 Feb 2021
Check out this session hosted by Jubilee Australia on Civil Society and Human Rights Defenders in the Pacific in the very first UN Pacific Forum on Business and Human Rights! You will hear from human rights defenders about the challenges they face and we will discuss how we can create a safer environment for human rights defenders.
G20 Ignores Cries for Support From World’s Poorest Countries
Sustainable economies,
Drop the debt
Release Date: 15 Oct 2020
Australian civil society organisations ActionAid and Jubilee Australia condemned G20 Finance Ministers who failed to extend a lifeline to the world’s poorest countries despite the clear need for debt cancellation, as they struggle to respond to the urgent humanitarian crisis brought on by COVID-19.
The World Bank’s Health Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
Climate Justice,
Sustainable economies,
Drop the debt
Release Date: 15 Oct 2020
This week, as the IMF and the World Bank hold their Annual Meetings, Jubilee has released a new research paper about the World Bank’s response to the COVID pandemic. The World Bank’s Response to COVID-19 is the first in a new Occasional Paper Series by Jubilee Australia.
New Report Calls for a Dramatic Change from Extraction to Inclusion for Real Development in Papua New Guinea
Changing PNG’s development path,
Sustainable economies,
Illegal logging,
Protect customary land
Release Date: 06 Oct 2020
Oakland/Port Moresby/Sidney—With the release of a new report today, ACT NOW!, Jubilee Australia, and the Oakland Institute, call for an urgent change of course from political leaders in Papua New Guinea. The report, From Extraction to Inclusion, analyses the country’s economic and development performance since its independence in 1975.
Doesn’t Stack Up: Australian Energy Company Accused of Spruiking Unnecessary Coal Power Project in PNG
Climate Justice,
Nogat Coal
Release Date: 22 Sep 2020
A new report from CELCOR (Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc) and the Jubilee Australia Research Centre has raised significant concerns about a proposal from an ASX listed Australian energy company, Mayur Resources, to build the Pacific’s first coal-fired power station in Papua New Guinea,
Billions in debt being collected from poor countries hard-hit by COVID-19
Sustainable economies,
Drop the debt
Release Date: 22 Jul 2020
Australian NGOs have expressed alarm as this weekend G20 Finance Ministers delayed debt relief measures for the world’s poorest countries as deaths from COVID-19 top 600,000 worldwide. The G20 did not call on multilateral lenders to take action and only reiterated its announcement from April that all official bilateral creditors should implement a short-term debt freeze
Proposed changes to Bougainville mining laws are a 'blank cheque'
Mining,
Growing Bougainville’s future,
Protect customary land
Release Date: 10 Jun 2020
A research paper released today by Jubilee Australia Research Centre assessing changes proposed to Bougainville's mining laws has found 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.
G20 suspension decision brings temporary relief but no lasting solution
Climate proof EFA
Release Date: 16 Apr 2020
G20 debt suspension decision will bring temporary relief but offers no lasting solution to debt crisis. This morning, the G20 governments announced they have agreed to temporarily suspend debt for the world's least developed countries in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The suspension covers debt payments by 77 countries to G20 and other governments from 1 May to the end of 2020, estimated to be $12 billion.
Cancel debt to tackle corona virus, say Australian CSOs
Changing Australia,
Aid and development
Release Date: 08 Apr 2020
A group of Australian civil society organisations (CSOs) released a statement today calling for the Australian Government to support the cancellation of external debt payments in 2020 for Low Income Countries (LICs) to help them fight the coronavirus. Organisations who signed onto the statement include: Jubilee Australia, Action Aid Australia, Caritas Australia
The Frieda River mine's EIS must be rejected
Save the Sepik,
Mining
Release Date: 31 Mar 2020
Wewak: A local Civil Society Organisation (CSO) called Project Sepik, today called for the rejection of the Frieda River mine on the grounds that the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was ‘unfit for purpose’. The call came in connection with the submission of ten independent expert reports on the EIS, which were submitted to PNG’s Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA).
Bougainville's historic referendum
Growing Bougainville’s future,
Sustainable economies
Release Date: 11 Dec 2019
Independence referendum a first step for self-determination for Bougainville. Bougainville’s landslide vote for independence from Papua New Guinea is history making. But the right to self-determination must be upheld in all its fullness, says Jubilee Australia Research Centre. In a historic vote that’s been more than 20 years in the making,
PanAust please pack your stuff and go
Save the Sepik,
Mining
Release Date: 24 Oct 2019
BRISBANE | Emmanuel Peni from Project Sepik has travelled from East Sepik province in Papua New Guinea to raise awareness about the proposed Frieda River gold-copper mine and to meet with miner PanAust, a Chinese owned-Australian-licensed company with its head office in Brisbane. Joined by Project Sepik partners, Jubilee Australia and Aid/Watch, Mr Peni personally delivered a message on behalf of the Sepik River
OceanaGold Philippines Shut Down – Villagers Blockade Site, Permit Renewal Withheld
Climate proof EFA,
Mining
Release Date: 09 Aug 2019
Sydney / Ottawa – The Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold has been forced to cease mining for over a month at its Didipio copper-gold mine in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. The company faces a restraining order from municipal and provincial elected officials, a blockade of the site by Didipio villagers, most of whom are indigenous peoples, a lapsed mining permit,
Indigenous Peoples blockade OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: company operates despite expired license
Mining
Release Date: 11 Jul 2019
Sydney / Ottawa – OceanaGold’s copper-gold mine in Didipio faces concerted opposition by local and indigenous Ifugao peoples living at its mine site in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, as well as from municipal and provincial elected officials. This clear lack of social license across three relevant jurisdictions is reported to be one of the reasons the mine has not been successful in renewing its license.
The Frieda River Mine and the threat to the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea
Save the Sepik,
Mining
Release Date: 14 Jun 2019
Sydney/Wewak- Jubilee Australia and Project Sepik released a new report today about PanAust’s proposed Frieda River Mine project in Papua New Guinea’s Sepik region. The report, The River is Not Ours, is an investigation of the project’s environmental and social impacts and the views of local communities regarding the mine. The report is a collaboration between two organisations: the Australian-based Jubilee Australia and the Papua New Guinea-based Project Sepik.
Land Summit in Papua New Guinea: a dangerous attack on the country’s unique customary land tenure system
Changing PNG’s development path,
Land and forests,
Illegal logging,
Protect customary land
Release Date: 02 May 2019
Oakland/Sidney – Jubilee Australia and the Oakland Institute denounce the National Land Summit, organized by the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government, as a dangerous attack on the country’s unique customary land tenure system. In a briefing paper released today, Land Summit or Land Grab?, the two organizations detail how the summit organized on May 1-3 2019 is an attempt by the PNG
Proposed New Pacific Infrastructure Initiative is Chasing Mythical Dragons
Changing Australia,
Aid and development
Release Date: 29 Mar 2019
Jubilee Australia, Caritas Australia and UNSW released a new report today, Enter the Dragon: Australia, China and the New Pacific Development Agenda, about the proposed new infrastructure fund for the Pacific. The report is strongly critical of the proposed Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP), arguing that the rationale for the scheme has been made on faulty premises,
Concerns Over Bill to Amend Efic
Changing Australia,
EFA
Release Date: 14 Feb 2019
Yesterday the Government introduced a bill to amend Efic. If approved, Efic would change its name to Export Finance Australia and take responsibility for a $1 billion fund with the objective of supporting infrastructure in the region. Worryingly, lending money through this mechanism could only occur if the infrastructure project would result in an “Australian benefit”. This would be a dramatic change.