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Corporate dysfunction on Indigenous affairs: Why heads rolled at Rio Tinto

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Outraged investors have forced the board of Rio Tinto to sack its chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques along with two of the senior executives partially responsible for the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which contained evidence of human habitation 46,000 years ago.

Why did the company commit this egregious act of cultural vandalism? There are several layers to the answer.

Language: English

Publisher: The Conversation

Region: Australia

Type: Article

CITATION

Hopkins., A. and Kemp, D, (2020). Corporate dysfunction on Indigenous affairs: Why heads rolled at Rio Tinto. The Conversation.

Available at: https://theconversation.com/corporate-dysfunction-on-indigenous-affairs-why-heads-rolled-at-rio-tinto-146001

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