While the report is scathing of Rio Tinto, it concludes that the issues “are not unique” to the company. [...] The inquiry report concluded that Rio Tinto’s review did not fully grapple with the root causes of the Juukan Gorge debacle and its effects. [...] Rather than letting this slide, inquiry chair Warren Entsch and the rest of the committee doubled down on their interrogation of the company’s senior management. [...] Read more: Destruction of Juukan Gorge: we need to know the history of artefacts, but it is more important to keep them in place Mining engineers, lawyers and media managers routinely overrule the advice of social specialists — including local experts and Indigenous advisers who work directly with communities on the ground. [...] The Apache people in the US have already linked Juukan to their campaign to protect the sacred Oak Flat site in Arizona.
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