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Michaelia Cash missed the memo on Rio Tinto

With impeccable comic timing, the Morrison government has tapped Rio Tinto’s former workplace safety boss.

You can just imagine our shock last week when Rio Tinto released the brutally condemnatory review of its workplace culture conducted last year by former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick.

Since 2018, nearly 60 Rear Window columns have been devoted to the appalling management and governance of Rio Tinto, more than 20 of them before Juukan Gorge even happened. Time and again we lamented “an organisational culture of fear and toxicity” at that company. Its board of directors could not have been less interested.

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Joe Aston is the founder of Rampart and the best-selling author of The Chairman’s Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out. From 2012 to 2023, Joe helmed The Australian Financial Review’s Rear Window column. Email Joe at hello@rampart.news

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