Opportunities for the Sample Clauses

Opportunities for the oil and gas sector The analysis of available information on oil and gas agreements reveals the diverse outcomes of agreement-making across Australia. Differing outcomes are observed which reflect a range of variables that particularly affect the negotiation process:  The nature of the project, including the scale and type of facilities, whether it is offshore or onshore, and requirements for onshore production pipelines  The particular jurisdiction, land tenures and relevant legislation affecting the project  The capacity and experience of Aboriginal stakeholders and extent to which competent representative Aboriginal organisations exist. A trend towards securing a greater share of the financial benefit is observed in the Northern Territory, where land rights legislation provides Aboriginal groups with a strong negotiating position coupled with well-resourced and experienced representative bodies. The large scale, mostly offshore, resource developments in Western Australia have seen even larger benefits packages, with the West Australian Government taking a prominent role in negotiations. The breadth and size of the benefits packages negotiated under these agreements actively seek to address the economic and educational factors that contribute to Aboriginal social disadvantage. Especially in regional Western Australia and the Northern Territory, where there are labour and skills shortages, there are serious initiatives aimed at taking up employment and particularly contracting opportunities available from petroleum development. These include pre-employment and vocational training and increased efforts by petroleum companies to xxxxxx Aboriginal contracting businesses. The South Australian approach is unique as it represents an industry-based collaboration with government that is focussing more on providing a framework aimed at getting petroleum exploration permits granted efficiently. Given the disparity between the level of payments contained in the template agreement and the payments achieved under agreements in other parts of the country, a question arises around how sustainable that approach will be in the longer term. The Queensland experience also appears to be weighted towards the project approval function of agreement-making. The resultant agreements are piecemeal and tend to reinforce the disparate nature of the Aboriginal interests in land found in central and southern Queensland. The challenge of contributing to positive social outcomes is ex...