Rio Tinto has hired indigenous community leader Wayne Bergmann to help improve relations with traditional owners as it continues to grapple with fallout from the Juukan Gorge controversy.
The state government has confirmed that it intends to proceed with clearing at the new $126.5 million Ocean Reef Marina, despite claims it is home to a significant indigenous site.
A scathing parliamentary report into Rio Tinto's destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves has found responsibility lay across industry and government, but its recommendations have not all been accepted by the mining lobby. or the WA government.
The High Court of Australia has dismissed all special leave applications challenging the registration of the South West Native Title Settlement Agreement.
More than 200 contracts were awarded by the state government to Aboriginal-owned businesses this past financial year, with four entities earning more than half the value.
WA’s largest Aboriginal health service has been placed under special administration while South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council has removed its chief executive after a disputed property deal.
Rio Tinto has changed the name of its new iron ore mine to Gudai-Darri after a request from Banjima elders, one small step in the miner’s efforts to rebuild trust with traditional owners.
An Onslow-based Aboriginal corporation has returned to member control after a major restructuring that included selling its pastoral stations and other assets.
Rio Tinto will cut the bonuses of three senior executives but none will lose their job after a board review of the company's destruction of two heritage sites.
The traditional owners at the centre of the Juukan Gorge controversy said Rio Tinto’s response to a parliamentary inquiry had only deepened their anguish.
Rio Tinto conceded today it failed on multiple occasions to review the planned destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves in light of material new information on their significance.
