Rio Tinto and the Indigenous Juukan Gorge Sites

內容大綱
In May, 2020, Rio Tinto PLC, a global mining company, blasted a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site in the Juukan Gorge, an area in Western Australia. While Rio Tinto’s actions were legal, the company was nonetheless widely criticized for its blasting of the sacred site, which contained remains and artefacts dating back tens of thousands of years. Furthermore, investigations revealed that Rio Tinto had knowledge of the sacred nature of the site. Internal investigations also revealed that the company had earmarked the site as being important to the Aboriginal peoples. The reaction to the blast was swift and unforgiving.
學習目標
To allow students to determine and discuss the purpose of a corporation beyond profit-making, to debate the moralities and legalities facing corporations, and how they may be related to or divorced from the choices that individuals must contend with, to discuss the responsibilities of corporations in broader society, and how they may fulfill those responsibilities, and to have a greater understanding of stakeholder theory and the complexity required to manage different stakeholder perspectives.
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