August 2023
Alan Joyce’s farewell tour descends into omnishambles
Today, Qantas well and truly entered Rio Tinto territory.
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.
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.
Golden parachutes to haunt Rio Tinto board
Thankfully, large Rio Tinto shareholders are privately acknowledging that Thompson is finished.
More cringeworthy answers from Rio Tinto
The culture that allowed the Juukan Gorge incident is the same culture that now befouls the rehabilitation effort.
Rio Tinto misleads parliamentary inquiry
Rio Tinto's contempt for the Australian Parliament is demonstrable.
Rio Tinto directors briefing against L'Estrange
How laughable that Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson considered the Juukan Gorge matter resolved.
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.
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.
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!
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.