Published: July 05, 2021
Eastern Guruma people refuse to meet with miner for at least three months in protest over dumping of sacred site artefacts
Aboriginal traditional owners have told mining giant Rio Tinto they will no longer do “welcome to country” for Rio related events, and are refusing to meet with the company until it demonstrates it is “serious” about modernising its agreements with them.
The Eastern Guruma people have canned any meetings with Rio Tinto for at least three months, after discovering priceless cultural materials salvaged from their sacred sites were thrown in a rubbish dump in the 1990s, and that Rio did not tell them of the mistake.
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