Quesion: where do they find these people?
A No vote in the Voice referendum could have global reputational repercussions for Australia, Rio Tinto chairman Dominic Barton has warned.
“I hope it won’t, but I worry about it,” he told a Financial Times mining summit in London on Friday.
Here is Mr Barton’s CV:
Dominic Barton (born 1962), known as Bao Damin (Chinese: 鲍达民) in China, is a Ugandan-born Canadian business executive, author, and diplomat.
I support excellence and generally listen to experts. Elitism in performance is a vital driver of progress.
However, that differs from social elitism, which usually goes hand in hand with class warfare, often foisted upon a people by foreign plutocrats.
Perhaps we should listen to RIO given its disastrous record of trampling Indigenous culture. Other areas of its expertise include:
- selling millions of tonnes of military-grade iron ore to the vicious Chinese tyranny,
- a record of bribing Chinese officials,
- developing excess iron ore mines in Africa to trash Australia’s national interest,
- destroying Australian governments to write its own tax code, and
- pumping carbon like a galactic exhaust pipe.
Then again, maybe RIO should zip it so the “yes” vote has some chance of success.
