Juukan Gorge: how could they not have known? (And how can we be sure they will in future?) Authors

This was: Deanna Kemp Professor and Director, Centre for Social despite a detailed archaeological report about the heritage value of the caves which the Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland company had commissioned despite representations of traditional landowners about the significance of the caves, and that they be preserved despite the concerns of Rio’s own cultural heritage s. [...] The closest it comes is an observation that Rio had a structure which sidelined heritage protection within the organisation, lack of senior management oversight, and no clear channel of communication to enable the escalation of heritage concerns to executives based in London Coalition committee member Dean Smith, Senator for Western Australia, went further in additional comments appended to the re. [...] Bad news needs to be sought out Second, they need to structure their organisation to maximise the chance of bad news reaching the top. [...] Read more: Corporate dysfunction on Indigenous affairs: Why heads rolled at Rio Tinto Specialist staff reporting to that executive need to be embedded at lower levels of the organisation and in each of the company’s divisions. [...] The best chance is a direct line to a specialist in corporate headquarters who reports to a “group executive social performance” on the executive committee.