Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia today released a ground-breaking report on public data availability of Australian extractive industries companies operating in Africa. The report ‘Abundant Resources, Absent Data: Measuring the Openness of Australian Listed Mining, Oil and Gas Companies on the African Continent’ found over 717 ASX listed extractives companies in 106 countries. The African continent had the highest regional concentration of ASX listed companies with 139 companies with 312 projects in 34 African nations. This equates to almost 1 in 5 ASX listed extractives companies (19.3%) being present on over 60% of the African continent making Australia the number one country present in the region by number of mining, oil and gas companies…