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Orica gives staff power to stop work at mine sites over heritage fears – Sydney Morning Herald
Workers at explosives giant Orica have been permitted to stop laying charges at mine sites if they are concerned about Indigenous heritage risks.
Burchell Hayes, a director of the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation, described the anniversary as not only a day of great sorrow, but an urgent reminder that government and industry need to act quickly to prevent another tragedy.
Proper protection can only come from the changed attitude and behaviour of resource companies, not just Rio Tinto but the entire industry, as well as robust government policies and watertight legislation which have the rights of traditional owners and their lands at the heart…
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