, Columnist
A Culture War Backlash Is Coming for the Mining Industry
A moral victory for First Nations.
Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg
Politics moves in pendulum swings from one extreme to the other. In many parts of the world, the backlash against the “woke” politics of the early 2020s appears to be foundering. That’s far from being the case in Australia’s mining industry.
Consider the end of a two-decade series of legal battles this week between Australia’s richest man and the Yindjibarndi, a First Nations group in the Pilbara region of the country’s northwest.