August 2023
Alan Joyce’s farewell tour descends into omnishambles
Today, Qantas well and truly entered Rio Tinto territory.
- Joe Aston
March 2021
Thompson’s utopian Rio agenda meets reality
Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson lacked a plausible explanation for how he mismanaged the aftermath of Juukan Gorge.
- Joe Aston
September 2020
Simon McKeon is Rio Tinto's weakest link
McKeon has managed to parlay his monstrous inertia throughout the Juukan Gorge crisis into a promotion and a £45,000 pay rise.
- Joe Aston
Golden parachutes to haunt Rio Tinto board
Thankfully, large Rio Tinto shareholders are privately acknowledging that Thompson is finished.
- Joe Aston
More cringeworthy answers from Rio Tinto
The culture that allowed the Juukan Gorge incident is the same culture that now befouls the rehabilitation effort.
- Joe Aston
Rio Tinto misleads parliamentary inquiry
Rio Tinto's contempt for the Australian Parliament is demonstrable.
- Joe Aston
Rio Tinto directors briefing against L'Estrange
How laughable that Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson considered the Juukan Gorge matter resolved.
- Joe Aston
August 2020
Rio Tinto board squibs Juukan Gorge accountability
Rio Tinto's decision is the most unconscionable slap in the face to the Aboriginal traditional owners.
- Joe Aston
July 2020
Marcia Langton knocks back Rio Tinto approach
The mining giant asked Langton to co-lead the board's inquiry into the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves.
- Joe Aston
Rio Tinto's missteps compound
In his fifth reshuffle of the group executive in four years, Jacques replaced a white man with two white men. Progress!
- Joe Aston
June 2020
Rio board closing in on JS Jacques
Rio has spent a month provoking the world’s escalating abhorrence with iterative, disingenuous, pedantic and qualified apologies.
- Joe Aston