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Juukan inquiry flags transparency concerns

MINERS trying to get land access agreements are forcing Indigenous groups to trade away key legal rights the parliamentary inquiry into the destruction of rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia’s Pilbara has been told.

 A parliamentary committee is delving further into the Juukan Gorge blasts.

A parliamentary committee is delving further into the Juukan Gorge blasts.

Witnesses also told the inquiry that Rio Tinto had destroyed the systems that would have kept its senior executives appraised of the importance of the Juukan Gorge caves. A key investor group also told...

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