Trump cast a long shadow over the oppositionâs campaign, particularly after early Coalition policies including a âgovernment efficiencyâ push and public service cuts proved unpopular. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, who lost his own seat of Dickson, had intermittently flirted with Trump-style politics, as did the shadow minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, whose mid-campaign call to âmake Australia great againâ was seen as a decisive moment by some in the Labor government.
Trump cast a long shadow over the oppositionâs campaign, particularly after early Coalition policies including a âgovernment efficiencyâ push and public service cuts proved unpopular. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, who lost his own seat of Dickson, had intermittently flirted with Trump-style politics, as did the shadow minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, whose mid-campaign call to âmake Australia great againâ was seen as a decisive moment by some in the Labor government.
In 2020, mining giant Rio Tinto blew up two Juukan Gorge Aboriginal rock shelters. It was quite the scandal and top executives lost their jobs (but not their bonuses). Though to be complete, mining companies had been destroying aboriginal sites for decades before this incident.
Bloomberg.com covers it and the fall-out here: Rio Tinto Exits Leave Bigger Problems Behind The decision to blast through a 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal site cost some top jobs. That doesnât mean the company has a clean slate.
Australia has been, at least up until now, a very mining friendly jurisdiction. Has this changed?
Juukan Gorge, in Western Australia, one of the earliest known sites occupied by Indigenous Australians, which the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has admitted damaging. Photograph: PKKP Aboriginal Corporation/AFP/Getty Images Source: The Guardian
And it's not only Rio Tinto feeling the heat at the moment.
In 2020, mining giant Rio Tinto blew up two Juukan Gorge Aboriginal rock shelters. It was quite the scandal and top executives lost their jobs (but not their bonuses). Though to be complete, mining companies had been destroying aboriginal sites for decades before this incident.
Bloomberg.com covers it and the fall-out here: Rio Tinto Exits Leave Bigger Problems Behind The decision to blast through a 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal site cost some top jobs. That doesnât mean the company has a clean slate.
Australia has been, at least up until now, a very mining friendly jurisdiction. Has this changed?
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