Mining giants push back on sacred site pause after Rio cave disaster
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Mining giants push back on sacred site pause after Rio cave disaster
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Australia s largest miners are pushing back against a federal inquiry s proposal to pause all projects on sacred Indigenous sites across the nation s most lucrative mining state, as key investors and First Nations leaders stand by the move to overhaul the industry.
Following months of public hearings, a joint parliamentary committee probing Rio Tinto s destruction of two 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock shelters released a list of recommendations on Wednesday. The most far-reaching of its calls was for a Western Australia-wide freeze on all new government approvals to disturb or destroy culturally significant sites until the state s laws were strengthened.
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