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Gina Rinehart named WA Pinnacle Awards’ Business Leader of the Year

Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has been celebrated for her outstanding leadership journey after being crowned WA Pinnacle Awards’ Business Leader of the Year. Judges on Thursday night acknowledged Mrs Rinehart’s transformation of Hancock Prospecting from a company with significant potential, to a top-tier firm employing thousands of people in WA. She was also recognised for making a positive impact on the wider community, through her contribution in education, medicine and sports, and for contributing to the transformation of the iron ore industry.

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Rinehart splashes $150m on cropping farms

MINING billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Agriculture has acquired three irrigated cropping farms spanning 6,856 hectares on the NSW northwestern slopes in a deal reportedly worth about $150 million. Of the total land, about 4,300 hectares is developed to irrigation, and the properties’ annual production averages between 25,000 and 30,000 cotton bales. A key feature of the aggregation is the sizeable water entitlements, with a combined allocation of 23,000 megalitres and about 7,000 megalitres of groundwater. Hancock Agriculture plans to use the Wee Waa aggregation to produce cotton, and follows its acquisition of the Warra Warra cropping property on Queensland’s Western Downs early this year.

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Cult-of-victimhood – Netball Australia vs Gina Rinehart

Those who engage in identity politics and demand that the world bend to their whims due to their supposed victim status, often end up shooting themselves in the foot … Those who define themselves, not by some past injustice, but by their present potential, are best able to grasp opportunities to build a better future.

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The Spectator | The tribe has spoken

In Netball Australia’s case, Gina Rinehart had every right to call an end to her $15 million gift. There are others who will respect her company’s brand, its bankrolling of the nation, job creation, and its extraordinary effort to fund the global dreams of our nation’s best young athletes including Olympic swimmers and rowers.

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SUBBING OUT THE SPONSORS?

“I thought the statement from Roy Hill (majority owned by Hancock) was excellent, in the sense that they clearly articulated what they’re doing in the Indigenous welfare space. No one from Western Australia and certainly nobody who knows even a little bit about the company would have been surprised by that. When you dive into these issues, you need to have considered, sober conversations. As stakeholders agitate, companies may wonder whether they should sit out the game. Story by Helen Trinca

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Wesfarmers boss and former Olympian Rob Scott backs in Gina Rinehart’s sponsorship of rowing

“Corporate sponsorship is really important for sport. And it is a time when we should be encouraging more corporate sponsorship and more government funding of sports, particularly Olympics sports, given that we have the Olympics in Australia in Brisbane in 10 years time,” he said. “As a rower and a chairman of Rowing Australia, our athletes really benefit from the support of the Australian Sports Commission (and) the support of Hancock Prospecting for example. “Often a lot of our Olympic rowers, similar to other Olympic sports, earn less than the minimum wage and so they are deeply grateful for the corporate support we get, and long should it continue.”

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Mrs Gina Rinehart has transformed Artistic Swimming in WA

Artistic Swimming Western Australia (ASWA) is extremely honoured and proud to have Mrs Gina Rinehart AO as our Patron. Mrs Rinehart and the support of the Hancock Prospecting Group has played an integral role over the past eight years in nurturing and developing our sport, transforming it into one that has, and continues to develop Western Australia’s artistic swimmers into accomplished women and world class athletes.

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