Open Data for Australia's mining, oil, and gas sector
summary
Campaign for mandatory, project-level fiscal disclosure argues Australia lacks both EITI membership and a mandatory law so most company payments are highly aggregated and opaque. Manual collection from annual reports and simple visuals in Piktochart produces datasets showing 717 ASX companies in 106 countries then updated to 802 companies with 67 companies falling under a proposed law and 61 new reporters, and regional concentration like 139 companies with 312 projects in 34 African nations. Examples contrast Exxon's aggregated $1.3bn claim with Glencore's UK-disaggregated ~$800m.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:28Corruption in extractive industries
- 3:39EITI vs mandatory disclosure laws
- 5:06Problems with aggregated fiscal data
- 7:13Glencore's tax reporting example
- 9:25Global presence of Australian extractive firms
- 10:08Research on ASX-listed companies
- 12:15ALP's mandatory disclosure law proposal
- 14:00Impact on private companies and Africa
- 15:25Call for transparency and community engagement
- 16:20Closing remarks and Q&A
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