(Future Directions, Nedlands, 15 December 2020) Since the publication of Part One of this paper, further deterioration in the Australia-China political and trading relationships has occurred, with the media offering useful commentary and analysis of the escalation, including as it relates to...
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2020/06/29
Country: Australia, Japan
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ICLG, London, 23 June 2020) A syndicate of company bank lenders and ECAs have enlisted Latham & Watkins to act as legal counsel in refinancing approximately USD 8.3 billion for one of the world’s largest oil and gas projects, in Australia. The development, named the Ichthys liquefied...
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2020/04/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Debt
(American Reporter, Boston, 26 April 2020) COVID-19 has drastically affected the economy. Exporters and Importers are unable to conduct business because of the transport restrictions. Australia’s export credit agency (ECA), Export Finance Australia has come ahead to help the exporters. It...
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2020/03/29
Country: Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, 8 March 2020) Moves by some of the world’s biggest banks to end coal financing for the sake of the planet was supposed to create major headaches for companies like Whitehaven Coal Ltd. Yet there was the Australian miner on a conference call last month announcing the refinancing and...
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2019/10/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Arms Trade
(Australian Defense Magazine, Canberra, 3 October 2019) New figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the world’s leading authority on global military spending, show that Australia has become the world’s second largest weapons importer but has dropped to 25th in...
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2019/09/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Arms Trade
(Mirage News, 6 September 2019) Government support for Australia’s defence industries is on the increase, as two government agencies extend collaboration. Under the Australian Government’s ...
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2019/08/30
Country: Australia, China, Indonesia
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, Suai, 28 August 2019) Colonized by Portugal, invaded by Indonesia, suckered by Australia, Timor-Leste doesn’t need another abusive relationship. But the clock is now ticking for Timor-Leste to find international funding for a $12 billion energy project so work can start before its...
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2019/06/01
Country: Australia, China, Japan, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
(Kikkei Asian Review, Tokyo, 25 June 2019) Japan, the U.S. and Australia have picked a liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea as their first case for joint financing in the Indo-Pacific region, planning to lend over $1 billion, Nikkei has learned. Three government-backed lenders --...
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2019/04/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, Transparency
(Australian Council for International Development, Canberra, 14 Feb, 2019) ACFID has raised concerns about reform to Australia’s export credit agency - EFIC - as part of the Australian Government’s Pacific ‘step-up’ and is calling for the legislation to be referred to a parliamentary committee...
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2019/04/29
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
(ABC, Sydney, 4 April 2019) Hundreds of Australian and New Zealand cattle have died in a Federal Government-backed export deal with Sri Lanka, which local farmers say has left them broke, and in some cases, suicidal. Farmers and animal rights groups, as well as Sri Lanka's own auditor-general,...
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2019/03/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 5 March 2019) A major oil and gas company wants Australian taxpayer money spent on overseas energy projects, stoking fears that a Morrison government plan to boost development in the Pacific is a smokescreen for fossil fuel investment. A government amendment to...
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2019/02/27
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 20 February 2019) Australia’s export credit agency, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Efic), could receive an A$1bn cash injection of callable capital, a mandate to finance larger overseas projects and a new name as part of a bill expected to pass in the...
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2019/02/27
Country: Australia, Iraq, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Daily Sabah, Istanbul, 4 February 2019) Turkey, the top contributor for Iraq's reconstruction with a $5 billion loan, has launched a coordination process to allocate the funds pledged for rebuilding Iraq. During the Kuwait International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq, the host...
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2019/01/30
Country: Australia
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Sydney, 18 January 2019) The expansion of Papua New Guinea’s giant gas project is turning up the heat in the Asia Pacific project finance arena, with a slew of jumbo financings set to emerge from Oceania in the next 18 months. Stakeholders in the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas...
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2018/12/30
Country: Australia
ECAs: Export Finance & Insurance Corporation Australia
Issue: Arms Trade
(ABC News, Sydney, 13 December 2018) The Australian Government has approved the export of dozens of shipments of military items to Middle Eastern countries embroiled in the bloody Yemen war, a conflict dogged by accusations of war crimes and indiscriminate civilian killings. Australia is...
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