Damage caused to an Aboriginal rock shelter by mining giant Rio Tinto in August underscores the need for better heritage protection laws and a greater say for Indigenous groups promised in this month's Voice referendum, advocates say.
A combination image shows the Nammuldi rock shelter before and after a mine blast by Rio Tinto in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, August 6, 2023. Rio Tinto/Handout via REUTERSState says there is no investigation underwayPolls show Oct 14 Indigenous Voice vote will struggle to pass
Rio's destruction of rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in 2020 prompted a global outcry, the departure of top executives and a parliamentary enquiry that recommended an"Regrettably, it seems as though Rio's blast management plan has failed on this occasion leaving the Muntulgura Guruma People to pick up the pieces," said Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation , which represents the Muntulgura, in a statement. "Any impact is of course unwelcome.
"As soon as we identified it, we informed traditional owners, we informed the regulator, we informed our employees at that mine site around what happened and that was for us the appropriate steps to take," Rio's iron ore boss Simon Trott told public broadcaster the ABC last week. Rio's initial assessment indicating no structural damage or impacts to cultural materials, which it had assessed via drone footage, had broker Morgan Stanley "somewhat relieved," it said in a note to clients.referendum set for Oct. 14 that would create a panel to advise parliament on issues affecting the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islands communities.
"In speaking to traditional owners, there is a reluctance to loudly criticise heritage protection issues in the state at the minute in case it galvanises the no vote in the upcoming referendum," Jamie Lowe, CEO of land rights advisory body National Native Title Council, told Reuters.its 2021 Aboriginal cultural heritage protection laws, introduced on July 1 after the destruction of the Juukan Gorge shelters.
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