Tag: Rio Tinto
‘Destruction by a thousand cuts’: the relentless threat mining poses to the Pilbara cultural landscape
Picture: Alan Porritt/AAP
Just as the parliamentary inquiry into Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters was reconvening in Canberra, another culturally significant site was damaged at...
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...