Rio Tinto accused of "incremental genocide"

7,000 artefacts were discovered during the excavation of the Juukan-2 site. WA senator Pat Dodson has accused mining company Rio Tinto of "incremental genocide" over its behaviour in the lead-up to the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves. …There were further apologies and acknowledgments of mistakes, but outgoing chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques refused to be drawn on repeated questions from WA senator Dean Smith on whether the company would have had a greater level of awareness on Indigenous matters if the company had been based where it makes its greatest profit, in Western Australia, instead of in London….