In 2020, mining giant Rio Tinto blew up two Juukan Gorge Aboriginal rock shelters. It was quite the scandal and top executives lost their jobs (but not their bonuses). Though to be complete, mining companies had been destroying aboriginal sites for decades before this incident.
Bloomberg.com covers it and the fall-out here: Rio Tinto Exits Leave Bigger Problems Behind The decision to blast through a 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal site cost some top jobs. That doesnât mean the company has a clean slate.
Australia has been, at least up until now, a very mining friendly jurisdiction. Has this changed?
Juukan Gorge, in Western Australia, one of the earliest known sites occupied by Indigenous Australians, which the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has admitted damaging. Photograph: PKKP Aboriginal Corporation/AFP/Getty Images Source: The Guardian
And it's not only Rio Tinto feeling the heat at the moment.
In 2020, mining giant Rio Tinto blew up two Juukan Gorge Aboriginal rock shelters. It was quite the scandal and top executives lost their jobs (but not their bonuses). Though to be complete, mining companies had been destroying aboriginal sites for decades before this incident.
Bloomberg.com covers it and the fall-out here: Rio Tinto Exits Leave Bigger Problems Behind The decision to blast through a 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal site cost some top jobs. That doesnât mean the company has a clean slate.
Australia has been, at least up until now, a very mining friendly jurisdiction. Has this changed?
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“I threatened Tony Abbott to shirtfront him about this issue… I’m so determined to give these people a voice… I am prepared to go and squirrel grip, the prime minister,” said Lazarus, according to The Australian.
“If that doesn’t work I’ve got other things up my sleeves such as the grapple tackle, the chicken wing and even the crusher tackle. If that doesn’t work I’m prepared to use the Hopoate tackles.”
“I threatened Tony Abbott to shirtfront him about this issue… I’m so determined to give these people a voice… I am prepared to go and squirrel grip, the prime minister,” said Lazarus, according to The Australian.
“If that doesn’t work I’ve got other things up my sleeves such as the grapple tackle, the chicken wing and even the crusher tackle. If that doesn’t work I’m prepared to use the Hopoate tackles.”
