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View all search resultsKnowing that they often lecture other nations, including Indonesia, on democracy and human rights, it should not be difficult for the Australians to follow the New Zealand’s way, even if it may look humiliating.
There has been much less public outrage about this incident compared to three years ago, when Rio Tinto destroyed rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in the same region which had showed evidence of human habitation stretching back 46,000 years.
Miner Rio Tinto said on Friday its chief executive and two senior executives will step down amid mounting shareholder criticism of its destruction of historically significant Aboriginal rockshelters and the way it managed its response.
Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques on Friday apologized for distress caused by Rio's destruction last month of two ancient and sacred Aboriginal caves in Western Australia, pledging full cooperation with an Australian government inquiry.
Centuries before Captain James Cook claimed Australia for Britain in 1770, Muslim Makassar sailors from Indonesia regularly travelled thousands of kilometers across open sea to trade with Aboriginal people in Australia's far north.
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