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Rio Tinto’s decision to blow up Indigenous rock shelters ‘inexcusable’
Calla Wahlquist & Lorena Allam, The Guardian, 09 December 2020Rio Tinto should pay compensation for Juukan Gorge caves blast, a parliamentary inquiry has recommended. The Western Australian government has also been called on to put a stop to the destruction of heritage sites until new laws are passed, in a scathing report criticising the actions of Rio Tinto. The bipartisan report said Rio Tinto’s...
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McKinsey proposed paying pharmacy companies rebates for OxyContin overdoses
Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe, The New York Times, 01 December 2020Documents released in a federal bankruptcy court in New York have shown that McKinsey & Company was involved in driving sales of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, even as public outrage grew over widespread overdoses. The 160 pages released include emails and slides revealing new details about McKinsey's advice to Purdue Pharma's billionaire...
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Three ways to fight corruption and restore trust in leadership
Borge Brende, World Economic Forum, 01 December 2020As paths out of the COVID-19 crisis are identified and we prepare for new environments, we must also focus on long-standing challenges affecting this recovery, such as the fight against corruption, and the need for greater trust and integrity in institutions. There is a unique window of opportunity to put good governance, transparency and ...
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Rio Tinto exec admits ‘overly transactional’ approach in Indigenous dealings
Anthony Barich, S&P Global, 25 November 2020Former Rio Tinto veteran executive, Stephen McIntosh has suggested the iron ore giant may have been "overly transactional" in its Indigenous relations which led to the Juukan Gorge tragedy. Mr McIntosh made the admission while speaking at the Australian-hosted online ...
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Corporate America says it is ready to work with Biden
David Shepardson, Reuters, 10 November 2020Corporate America is ready to work with President-elect Joe Biden, on a new round of COVID-19 relief and infrastructure spending. Major business trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable issued statements congratulating Biden while President Trump still refuses to concede. Biden has already vowed to...
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Did social media actually counter election misinformation?
Matt O’Brien & Mae Anderson, Associated Press, 05 November 2020Social media platforms, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube promised to clamp down on misinformation ahead of the presidential election and they mostly did that, although not without a few issues. Critics have said the measures imposed still didn't address the problems exposed by...
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BHP bosses defend company’s decision to remain in gas & oil
Ben Butler, The Guardian, 15 October 2020BHP executives have dismissed shareholder criticism after the mining company declared its intention to continue investing in gas and oil for the 'short-term' at its recent AGM. During the AGM, BHP chairman Ken MacKenzie also focused on the fallout from Rio Tinto's decision to destroy the Juukan Gorge caves.
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Unilever to drop fossil fuels from cleaning products by 2030
Siddharth Cavale, Reuters, 02 September 2020Unilever has pledged one billion euros by 2030, to lower the creation of carbon emissions by one-fifth created from the production of its cleaning products. Instead of petrochemicals, the company will now use constituents created from plants and other biological sources. Currently, the company emits about 100 million metric tonnes of carbon...
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Rio Tinto executives lose millions in bonuses over destruction of Juukan Gorge
Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian, 24 August 2020Rio Tinto CEO, Jean-Sebasiten Jacques, has lost nearly $5 million in bonuses, and the head of its Australian ore group will lose more than $1 million in bonuses after an internal review found the company had “systematic failures in the cultural heritage management system.” This comes after the destruction of a 46,000 Aboriginal heritage site at...
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Preserving organisational trust with Professor Nicole Gillespie
13 July 2020In this episode of Very Public Affairs, the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns is joined by Professor Nicole Gillesipe, KPMG Chair in Organizational Trust and Professor of Management at the University of Queensland Business School to discuss how organisational design affects trust, and how organisations can...
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