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Ben Wyatt joins Rio Tinto board after Juukan Gorge Caves fallout

Environmental concerns mount amid rise of NT cotton

[Roxanne Fitzgerald, ABC]

[Kenith Png, ABC]

The former WA Aboriginal affairs minister Ben Wyatt has been appointed to Rio Tinto's board as a non-executive director as the mining giant moves to recover from the fallout over the Juukan Gorge disaster.

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On Douglas Station south of Darwin, a 200-hectare rain-fed cotton field is ready to be picked and spun into lucrative bales, part of a national crop worth $1.5 billion this season. 

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