Publish What You Pay Australia is part of a global movement of 50 national coalitions made up of over 700 organisations united in calling for transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sectors.
National Director
Clancy Moore
Clancy lives and works on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Working with communities in the Pacific, Myanmar, Brazil and Australia, he has helped win campaigns on climate change, offshore detention, land rights and women’s rights. He has held leaderships roles with Oxfam, ActionAid and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. He lectures at several Australian universities on advocacy and international development and advises organisations on climate change and natural resource governance. He is the father of two feminists-in-training boys, surfs a long board and plays guitar. He has been the National Director of Publish What You Pay Australia since October 2019.
Our Coalition Members
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee provides oversight, governance and supports fundraising for Publish What You Pay Australia. Meeting every two months, the Steering Committee is governed by a terms of reference and comprises coalition members and partners.
Steering Committee Members
Our current members include:
Kat Tu, ActionAid Australia
Kat is the Head of Policy and Campaigns at ActionAid Australia, a global women’s rights organisation, supporting women living in poverty and exclusion around the world. She has ten years experience working in the progressive campaigns space, with expertise in digital campaigning and fundraising, corporate campaigning, and community organising. Kat holds a combined Bachelor of Arts and Law from the University of Sydney.
Mel Flanagan, Nook Studios
Mel is a local and global advocate for public participation, open process, environmental sustainability, and open government financial transparency initiatives including open contracting, beneficial ownership, and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). She is a creative technologist, information and service designer, and founder of Nook Studios. Nook are pioneers in designing services using mining, production and infrastructure data to improve access to information and community engagement.
Andrew Hewett, Victoria University
Andrew is a Ph.D in International Relations. He is currently Deputy Chair of Diaspora Action Australia and has been an independent Non-Executive Director of Australian Energy Foundation since 2010. Andrew worked for Oxfam Australia for nearly 22 years, 11 years as their Executive Director (CEO), and was a Vice-President of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) for ten years. He has extensive international advocacy experience, was a member of the World Bank NGO Committee, Co-Chair of the Make Poverty History Campaign, and a member of the BHP Billiton Forum for Corporate Responsibility for over a decade.
Stephanie Rochford, PWYP Secretariat
Stephanie joined the PWYP Secretariat in London in 2013. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Sheffield, is a qualified practitioner in Prince 2 project management, and brings wide-ranging operational, research and management experience. At PWYP, she has worked to support governance, communications, grant management and operational processes. As Director of Member Engagement, Stephanie is responsible for supporting PWYP’s regional coordinators in implementing our strategy at national and regional levels, as well as supporting the Executive Director in fundraising.
Host
ActionAid Australia is the proud host of Publish What You Pay Australia. ActionAid works across 45 countries and represent a global movement of women standing together to claim their human rights and campaign against injustice.
Previous Directors/Coordinators
Publish What You Pay Australia was established in Australia in 2015. Previous reports, research and foundation work for the movement was thanks to our previous coordinators:
Claire Spoors (2011-2015)
Claire is an adviser working on inequality in the Oxfam UK Advocacy Team. She sits on the board of Publish What You Pay Secretariat.
Jessie Cato (2015-2019)
Jessie moved to Washington DC in January 2019 to join Oxfam America as a Program Officer for Extractive Industries.
Funding
Publish What You Pay Australia is committed to transparency and accountability on our operations. Our generous donors support salary costs, research, advocacy, training for communities, administration and travel.
We don’t accept money from oil, gas and mining companies.
In our start up years, funding was provided by our members and the following international philanthropic foundations and non government organisations:
Luminate Group
Luminate is part of the global Omidyar Network philanthropic foundation. Established as a separate entity in 2018, Luminate supports organisations to advocate for extractive industry financial transparency, open contracting and other initiatives to empower people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.
NRGI
The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) works with innovative agents of change within government ministries, civil society, the media, politicians, the private sector, and international institutions to promote accountable and effective governance in the extractive industries.
Open Society Foundation
The Open Society Foundations are active in more than 120 countries around the world. Our national and regional foundations and thematic programs give thousands of grants every year toward building inclusive and vibrant democracies.
Get Involved
We are looking for local donors interested in driving systemic change in the extraction of natural resources. If your organisation is interested in getting involved and supporting our work, please get in touch.