This Month
Rio Tinto says carbon price pain justifies action on emissions
Carbon pricing schemes in Australia and Quebec mean almost half of Rio’s emissions are subject to penalty and would soon cost $940 million per year if not tackled.
- Peter Ker
October 2023
Ex-Rio chief’s wife lashes ‘botched’ Indigenous heritage laws
Rio Tinto’s position on Indigenous issues is motivated by the need to distance itself from JS Jacques’ reign. Not that his wife got the memo.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
March 2023
Rio Tinto’s JS Jacques banks another $16 million
Retirement is playing out marvellously for JS Jacques, of Juukan Gorge fame.
- Joe Aston
November 2022
Pearls of wisdom from JS Jacques
Of all the subjects Jacques might be qualified to opine on, corporate culture certainly isn’t one of them.
- Joe Aston
July 2022
Jacques warns miners could face ‘nightmare’ cost squeeze
Fading commodity prices and soaring costs could soon deliver a nightmare scenario for miners, according to former Rio boss Jean-Sebastien Jacques.
- Peter Ker
March 2022
Rio Tinto board gets off scot-free
Australia’s proxy firms have reverted to their default behaviour: tickling the tummies of Rio Tinto’s lousy directors.
- Joe Aston
February 2022
Rio Tinto’s board has learnt nothing
In the Rio boardroom, any sense of collective shame has clearly passed.
- Joe Aston
Rio Tinto curbs Jacques’ bonus over culture
This year’s bombshell report into Rio Tinto’s culture will see a reduced number of bonus shares awarded to current and former executives like JS Jacques.
- Peter Ker
Michaelia Cash missed the memo on Rio Tinto
With impeccable comic timing, the Morrison government has tapped Rio Tinto’s former workplace safety boss.
- Joe Aston
December 2021
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Heads did roll: Rear Window’s 2021 in review
A year that started in court has had plenty of victims, some unlikely saviours, and the greatest boondoggle ever.
- Joe Aston
Rio Tinto’s Twitter wars
In the social media netherworld, there is still support for the mining giant’s Jacques era.
- Joe Aston
November 2021
- Exclusive
- Executive pay
Revealed: Australia’s 50 highest-paid CEOs
The annual chief executive pay survey shows a drastic jump in average remuneration of 24 per cent and annual bonuses soaring by 67 per cent.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
October 2021
Wrongful termination suit coming for Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is going to pay Alan Davies a mountain of cash for wrongful termination.
- Joe Aston
August 2021
Oyu Tolgoi another Jacques scandal for Rio Tinto
The extent of Rio Tinto’s mine development incompetence laid bare at Oyu Tolgoi is almost inconceivable.
- Joe Aston
July 2021
Rio Tinto’s malaise years in the making
Rio Tinto will ship less iron ore in 2021 than it did in 2016.
- Joe Aston
May 2021
Juukan Gorge reverberations continue at Rio
Three months after the ascension of new CEO Jakob Stausholm, the reconfiguration of Rio’s corporate affairs function carries on.
- Myriam Robin
April 2021
Rio says Juukan Gorge punishments were at the limit of the law
Rio Tinto’s remuneration chairman, Sam Laidlaw, says penalties handed to Jean-Sebastien Jacques and two other executives were the most that could be legally defended,
- Peter Ker
March 2021
ISS against Rio director Megan Clark
The global proxy adviser has recommended Rio Tinto shareholders vote against the re-election of director Megan Clark.
- Joe Aston
Dirty dozen accuse Rio of covering up extent of Mongolian blowout
Twelve former workers on Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi mine have backed claims Rio Tinto concealed the extent and true cause of multi-billion dollar blowouts on the project
- Peter Ker
AFIC sees better management ahead for Rio Tinto
The establishment investor believes Rio Tinto will be better for the executive and boardroom clean out that followed destruction of Juukan Gorge.
- Peter Ker