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

  • Written by Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University

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.

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