
RSL Welcomes Support for Veteran Housing
The Returned &Services League of Australia (RSL) has commended the announcement that Hancock Prospecting will contribute $200 million to purchase properties to house Australia’s homeless veterans.
Hancock Prospecting include a world-class agribusiness business, which has a long and proud history in agriculture, on both sides of executive chairman, Gina Rinehart’s, family.
Hancock Prospecting is committed to investing in local rural communities, developing and implementing innovative, industry-leading farming practices and driving export quality and growth.
Prior to mining exploration, the family owned and operated for decades a number of iconic cattle stations in WA including Ashburton Downs and Hamersley Station. Hancock’s Executive Chairman, Gina Rinehart, grew up on Hamersley station.
Hancock Prospecting has significantly grown the agricultural portfolio with strategic investment in pastoral stations and agribusinesses.

The Returned &Services League of Australia (RSL) has commended the announcement that Hancock Prospecting will contribute $200 million to purchase properties to house Australia’s homeless veterans.

In a move to recognise a national crisis and national disgrace, Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is contributing $200 million to buy properties to help Australia’s homeless veterans and war heroes, the biggest ever private commitment for Australian veterans.

After returning from talks with counterparts in Washington, Dr Chalmers on Monday bemoaned the impact of the war in the Middle East by saying Australia’s economy was being held hostage to “decisions taken in Washington and Tehran”.

The arrival of the No. 37 Squadron C-130J is the latest Air Force asset to visit Ginbata, further strengthening the relationship between two of Australia’s essential industries – mining and Defence.

Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, has weighed in on the fuel crisis, blaming the country’s dependence on imports in part on the Coalition.

ONE of Japan’s largest breeders of Wagyu cattle has outlined his view on the current state and future direction of the global Wagyu industry in an interview with Beef Central at last week’s Australian Wagyu Industry Conference in Brisbane.
“Hancock Prospecting is built on good Australian values where loyalty and performance are rewarded. Our vision is to create pathways to business and employment opportunity for veterans and ex military across Hancock Prospecting, That the veterans feel valued and preferentially treated when they approach us and that we create a real sense of recognition of military service to the country for which they served which for the majority will be Australia.”
Hancock Prospecting Executive Chairperson,
Gina Rinehart AO
Hancock Prospecting is Australia’s most successful private company.
We have varied and exciting career opportunities across our mining and agricultural businesses, offering avenues for people new to the industry, supporting diversity in our workplaces.
We are investing in Australian jobs and look forward to you joining with us to continue to build prosperity for our great nation, and to set yourself up now and into the future.
We are the sons of Australia,
Of the men who fashioned the land,
We are the sons of the women
Who walked with them, hand in hand;
And we swear by the dead who bore us,
By the heroes who blazed the trail,
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
Verse of patriotic poem by Dame Mary Gilmore. Published in The Australian Women’s Weekly, June 1940 during the Second World War (1939-1945).