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The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects

Abbreviations and Currency Conversion Rates

Abbreviations

ALRA

Aboriginal Land Rights Act: the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth)

ATALA

Angore Tiddy Apa Landowners Association

ATSIC

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

CA

Community affairs

CLF

Community Leaders’ Forum

CSG

Coal seam gas

CSR

Corporate social responsibility

EIA

Environmental impact assessment

EIS

Environmental impact statement

ESIA

Economic and social impact assessment

GCA

Gulf Communities Agreement

HGCP

Hides Gas Conditioning Plant

IBP agreement

Integrated Benefits Package agreement

LBSA

License benefit sharing agreement

LMALA

Lihir Mining Area Landowners Association

LNG

Liquefied natural gas

LSDP

Lihir Sustainable Development Plan

MCA

Minerals Council of Australia

NLC

Northern Land Council

NRLLG

Nimamar Rural Local Level Government

NSW

New South Wales

NT

Northern Territory

PJV

Porgera Joint Venture

PKKP

Puutu Kunti Kurrama People and Pinikura People

PLA/PLOA

Porgera Landowners Association

PNG

Papua New Guinea

PNGDF

Papua New Guinea Defence Force

QLD

Queensland

SIA

Social impact assessment

SML

Special Mining Lease

TO

Traditional Owners

WA

Western Australia

Currency Conversion Rates

Year

PGK (= 1AUD)

USD (= 1AUD)

2000

1.67

0.56

2007

2.42

0.88

2011

2.17

1.02

2016

2.29

0.72

2017

2.54

1.28

2018

2.29

0.70

2019

2.40

0.70


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