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2 months old This article is more than 2 months old Traditional owners acknowledge mining company’s efforts in rebuilding relationship but say more needs to be done Kurrama elder Burchell Hayes says Rio Tinto has taken steps to address the ‘hurt and devastation’ caused by the Juukan Gorge blast but they are the first of many needed to ensure such an incident is never repeated. Photograph: PKKP Aboriginal Corporation Kurrama elder Burchell Hayes says Rio Tinto has taken steps to address the ‘hurt and devastation’ caused by the Juukan Gorge blast but they are the first...

Rio, traditional owners healing Juukan Gorge wounds Share Rio Tinto and traditional owners have taken the first steps in rebuilding their relationship in the wake of the mining giant's destruction of 46,000-year-old rock shelters. Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura traditional owners in co-operation with Rio have been involved in remedial work at the Juukan Gorge site in Western Australia. The remedial work at Juukan Gorge, pictured before its destruction, has begun.  In a joint statement, Rio and the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation said they would prepare a heads of agreement to "capture our comm...

Cant and lawsuits: Rear Window’s year in review Save Share Any bona fide review of the calendar year that corporate and political Australia have endured would necessarily run to hundreds of pages. In this format, sadly, we can only scan through the highlights of the highlights. “Unprecedented” was, intolerably, the word of 2020. And all of it was: the border closures, the market meltdown, the lockdowns, the government spending, the market recovery, and the gruesome spectacle of the health crisis mishandled elsewhere. Out the door: Treasury Wine Estates CEO Mike Clarke.   Dav...

1 / of 2 Meet the woman heading $1 trillion investor group ACSI unseating corporate Australia's main men for their 'misdeeds' Posted SunSunday 20 updated MonMonday 21 DecDecember 2020 at 10:50pm ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson says they are among a number of investor groups having "frank conversations" with company directors about their culture. ( Print text only Cancel When news emerged that Boe Pahari was promoted to run AMP's largest and most profitable division, AMP Capital, after a former female employee had settled a sexual harassment claim with the financial services giant, inves...

Stories We Missed in 2020: Rio Tinto’s Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Proved (Again) Nothing Is Sacred Except Profit Mining executives knew the spiritual value of the ancient Indigenous site – and they blew it up anyway On 24 May 2020, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the mining giant Rio Tinto blew up a 46,000-year-old sacred site: the Juukan Gorge rock shelters. The traditional owners of the land, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP), only learnt about the company’s intentions 11 days before the blast; they issued an urgent request to the Western ...