The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[ElwoodBlues1]

EB, in 2022, do you think the response from the CEO of a company would be anything other than something like "I do not condone or agree with any of the statements made by my father in the 1980s" ? It would be a meaningless exercise in my view and I would bet my balls there would be people who would say "well of course thats what she'd say, what a WOFT". As MBB said, I would find it insulting to be asked the question if I had never been accused of saying something like that, held a similar position, if I employed the number of indigenous people she employs/sponsors and did the amount of charity work she does for the indigenous communities. Again Ill go back to what I said at the start, here is what should have happened:
- Concerned player contacts her employers to voice her more than legit concerns.
- NA shows true leadership by immediately calling in the player concerned and a Hancock rep (preferable the Big Cahuna herself) before the media crap storm broke to to discuss the concerns and come a resolution in private.
Ill guarantee you, NA would be $15M richer and the player would be convinced that the comments made by an individual decades ago are not representative of the same company today.

Instead today, the first thing players, organisations etc do is grab their phones, jump onto social medial and adopt the Ready-Fire-Aim approach and here we are, reputation tarnished for ever.

GTC, Short of a law suit for the reasons why.... I think Gina could do with some good PR. Mining company CEO's apologise for digging holes and fecking up the environment all the time,its part of the job CV.
Eg...MELBOURNE, Australia-- Comments attributable to Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques

“Rio Tinto will fully cooperate with the Inquiry by the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia while also continuing to support the West Australian government in the reform of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA). We are committed to engaging with the rest of the industry, Traditional Owner Groups, and federal and state governments across a number of areas relating to cultural heritage approvals and processes, and the broad contribution of the resources sector to Australia.

“We are very sorry for the distress we have caused the PKKP in relation to Juukan Gorge and our first priority remains rebuilding trust with the PKKP.  Rio Tinto has a long history of working in partnership and creating shared value with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities around our operations and across Australia more broadly.  We remain absolutely committed to continuing to do so.

“We believe the mining industry has a critical role to play in contributing to the future prosperity of all Australians.”

A Genuine sorry...probably not, but well worded and what was required to move on.

This is the big end of town though...my problem is that Ms Wallan is a inexperienced kid not a Government Minister, not the head of a company or a experienced First Nations Leader. As I said before this could have been settled with a cup of tea, a Tim Tam and letting the kid feel important enough that her voice was being heard by the most powerful woman in the country.
A bit of reassurance and parenting 101 skills from Gina and it would have been happy days instead of the train wreck it is now....maybe I am asking a lot of Gina given the struggles she had with her own kids...money the root of all evil I guess...