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AFL call means Rio Tinto has lost ‘social licence’: Indigenous leader – The Age

The loss of a partnership with the AFL would show that mining giant Rio Tinto had lost the company’s “social licence” in Australia, according to leading Indigen…

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The loss of a partnership with the AFL would show that mining giant Rio Tinto had lost the company’s “social licence” in Australia, according to leading Indigenous academic and activist Professor Marcia Langton.
Langton, the foundation chair in Indigenous studies at Melbourne University in faculty of medicine, said the AFL and the NRL were leaders in “closing the gap”, with up to 12 per cent of their players having Indigenous backgrounds and called an AFL withdrawal from Rio Tinto “an acute sig…

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