Western Australia has always been proud of its natural resources and mining industries. Criticise it, and you bare the wrath of not only the elitism of rich investors and industrialists, but pretty much 80 to 90% of the population.
Woodside is considered one of the pride. When meeting its representatives in 2003, as one of the 40 of so school students attending the 鈥淎ustralian Student Mineral Venture鈥, we were told in loud volumes about how they employed Aborigines too 鈥 obviously the only tick box needed to be ethical, or so they thought.