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Top Rio Tinto executive says iron ore boom unravelled Indigenous ties – Sydney Morning Herald
Former head of growth and innovation, Stephen McIntosh, says a “transactional'” approach to engagement with Indigenous groups contributed to the Juukan Gorge fiasco…..
“Clearly what’s happened here is we have ended up with an issue where we probably became overly transactional and there were clearly breakdowns in communications,” he said.
Mr McIntosh, a 30-year Rio Tinto veteran and one of the company’s most respected executives, added that Rio had lost the trust of traditional owners and must now work to repair those ties.
“Trust is an asset that you work incredibly hard to get but it disappears extraordinarily quickly when you don’t meet the aspirations of all…
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