Tag: Juukan Gorge
Sacred Aboriginal sites are yet again at risk in the Pilbara. But tourism can help protect Australia’s rich cultural heritage
Image: Traditional Owner and co-author Clinton Walker. City of Karratha
An application from Traditional Owners to block the construction of a fertiliser plant near ancient rock...
Sunday essay: masters of the future or heirs of the past? Mining, history and Indigenous ownership
A haulage truck at Rio Tinto’s Weipa operations in northern Queensland. AAP/Rio Tinto, Joanne O'Keeffe
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article...
Juukan Gorge inquiry puts Rio Tinto on notice, but without drastic reforms, it could happen again
Picture: RICHARD WAINWRIGHT/AAP
On the eve of Reconciliation Week this year, news broke that Rio Tinto had destroyed ancient rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia to expand one of its...