Under-pressure Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques has emerged from two weeks in isolation in Perth ahead of an attempt to secure a face-to-face meeting on the home turf of traditional owners devastated by the mining giant’s destruction of Juukan Gorge.

Mr Jacques spent two weeks quarantined in a Perth hotel room, eating food from room service and being subjected to police checks on his whereabouts in keeping with Western Australia’s hardline border policy.