Dominic Barton frets over the impact on Australia’s reputation if the Voice referendum goes down. He says Rio’s post-Juukan cultural overhaul is taking time.
| A No vote in the Voice referendum could have global reputational repercussions for Australia, Rio Tinto chairman Dominic Barton has warned.mining summit in London on Friday.
“It’s their land, and how we’re operating is something we’ll just continue to do. We have an advisory group that’s very helpful to us, that was set up after the Juukan Gorge situation,” he said, referring to the company’s destruction of several sacred Aboriginal sites in the Pilbara in May 2020.“That has been very helpful to us not just in building better relationships, but also in terms of how we think about social licence more broadly.
Speaking alongside Mr Barton at the summit, Ms Broderick said she would be looking for “cultural change” at Rio, not just ticking off the action items from her earlier report.She offered examples of incidents at Rio which suggested deeper change was afoot. In one case, a group of workers had decided to call their new colleague “Mary”, because they couldn’t pronounce her South-East Asian name.
“One thing some investors rightly say is, ‘how do you know you’re making progress? What’s your measurement?’. It’s a very difficult thing to measure,” Mr Barton said.
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