Two years into Rio Tinto’s attempt to address sexual harassment, racism and bullying across its organisation, the miner has released a progress report that is at turns infuriating, inspiring, heartbreaking, provocative, encouraging and deeply worrying. Most importantly for the rest of corporate Australia, it’s also radically transparent.
But it is also a document very much of our time, one that captures the collision of two very modern forces: the push for increased diversity for the marginalised, and the push against so-called wokeness.