30 October 2026 - Sharing the Benefits, ‘Transformative Approaches to Redistribution, Justice and the Future of Extraction’
Friday 30 October 2026, 10am AEDT | Thursday 29 October, 7pm ET | 4pm PT.
The third dialogue will look beyond conventional approaches to compensation and community benefits to consider more transformative possibilities for sharing the value generated through extraction.
Participants will examine approaches centred on redistribution, public and community ownership, environmental justice, Indigenous self-determination and alternative models of development. The discussion will also consider what decades of experience with mining can teach us about the limits of benefit sharing and the dangers of using benefits primarily to secure acceptance of projects whose fundamental terms remain beyond community control. The discussion will include Dayna Scott (Osgoode Hall Law School), Wayne Moonias (Neskantaga First Nation), Donna Ashamock (Indigenous Climate Action), and Godwin Dzah (University of British Columbia).
This conversation forms part of the larger project Sharing the Benefits: Critical Minerals, Data Centres, Local Communities that brings together researchers, public officials, civil society organisations and communities to explore how the benefits and burdens of the green and digital transitions can be shared more fairly. Through an online international dialogue series and an in-person local government workshop in Melbourne, the project creates a space to compare experiences, identify emerging practices and build a longer-term research and policy network. Sharing the Benefits is a collaboration between Luis Eslava (La Trobe University), Caitlin Murphy (RMIT) and André Dao (University of Melbourne), and is supported by the Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law at the Melbourne Law School and BHRIGHT at RMIT.
Registration form available soon.
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