| Table of Contents |
| | Acknowledgements | ix |
| | List of contributors | xi |
| | Introduction / Marcia Langton | 1 |
| pt. I | Impacts, strategies and choices: the resource extraction industry and the economic and social status of indigenous and local peoples | 21 |
| 1. | The resource curse compared: Australian Aboriginal participation in the resource extraction industry and distribution of impacts / Odette Mazel | 23 |
| 2. | Curse or opportunity? Mineral revenues, rent seeking and development in Aboriginal Australia / Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh | 45 |
| 3. | Measuring indigenous outcomes from mining agreements in Australia: the role of applied demography / John Taylor | 59 |
| 4. | Papua New Guinea: conflicts, customary landholding and resource exploitation / Steven Pettigrove | 77 |
| 5. | Mining companies as agents for social development: the case for more effectual corporate-community investments / Ana Maria Esteves | 95 |
| pt. II | Agreements, taxation and natural wealth accounts: distribution, preservation and economic development | 109 |
| 6. | Legal forms and their implications for long-term relationships and economic, cultural and social empowerment: structuring agreements in Australia / Lee Godden | 111 |
| 7. | Five principles for managing Timor-Leste's natural resource revenue wisely / Jen Drysdale | 133 |
| 8. | The development forum in Papua New Guinea: evaluating outcomes for local communities / Colin Filer | 147 |
| 9. | Tax law and policy for indigenous economic development in Australia / Miranda Stewart | 163 |
| 10. | Native title agreements, taxation and economic development in Australia / Lisa Strelein | 181 |
| 11. | The income tax-exempt charitable structure as a vehicle for holding Australian native title interests: some lessons from New Zealand / Fiona Martin | 195 |
| pt. III | Economic development for local and indigenous people: case studies of the dynamics among states, corporations and local communities | 211 |
| 12. | Turning a benefit agreement into practical development: a case study of a Papua New Guinea development foundation / Barbara Sharp | 213 |
| 13. | From paternalism to partnership: the Good Neighbour Agreement and the Argyle Diamond Mine Indigenous Land Use Agreement in Western Australia / Odette Mazel | 231 |
| 14. | Engaging communities in resource development initiatives in Timor-Leste / Lisa Palmer | 251 |
| 15. | To be destitute or to benefit: corporate social responsibility and mining in South Africa / Willemien Du Plessis | 269 |
| | Index | 285 |