Strategic Ignorance: Rio Tinto’s Destruction of Sacred Juukan Caves

Strategic Ignorance: Rio Tinto’s Destruction of Sacred Juukan Caves

How can we excuse mining giant Rio Tinto’s unconscionable destruction of a 46,000 year old Pilbara Aboriginal Heritage site on the grounds of “not knowing” when the communication process with Traditional Owners is designed to fail?

Read the article by Rebecca Lawrence, research lead on the ‘Resource Legacies and Impacted Communities’ project at Sydney Environment Institute and REXSAC researcher and Research Task 4 Leader.

Photo credit: Karijini National Park, Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia. Image/Shutterstock: 1037499214.

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