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JS Jacques can’t blame predecessors for Juukan Gorge debacle – The Australian Financial Review
The grovelling apologies of Rio Tinto’s CEO are odiously hollow.
The inference that Rios previous managers had planned to blow up the caves to pocket an extra $135 million was a cynical set-up and to the credit of Rios tacticians, the entire press corps ran with it as the early takeout from the hearings.
That is despite two glaring factors that make the dollar sum, and the 2013 decision related to it, completely irrelevant to the caves destruction seven years later:
Firstly, the unprecedented heritage value of the caves the highest archaeological significan…
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