“Mrs G (Rinehart) has done a hell of a lot for not only swimming, but she’s looked after beach volleyball, she’s looked after women’s rowing and women’s synchronised swimming. ”I mean heavens above – what are these women doing.”
Olympic swimmer Dawn Fraser has thrown her support behind Gina Rinehart after its players took issue with her sponsorship deal over offensive comments made by her late father. Fraser hit out at the players, and praised Rinehart for backing minor sports over the years.
“Bring on summer.”
Swimmers from the Hedland Amateur Swim Club will travel to Karratha for the region’s biggest competition, the Hancock Prospecting Pilbara Championships, on November 25-27.
He said Rinehart sponsored his own charity Cows for Cambodia. “She’s the richest woman in Australia but still had the time for our little charity,” he wrote. “She was attracted by her love for the cattle industry and helped us to no end. Never once asking for anything in return.
The support that Hancock Prospecting and Mrs Rinehart AO have provided to Swimming WA and the sport of swimming spans over three decades and has made a significant contribution to the success of our elite WA swimmers at international level. Hancock Prospecting and Mrs Rinehart AO also support swimming across Australia including providing direct support to members of the Australian Swimming Team.
Swimming Queensland is proud of its long-standing partnership with Mrs Gina Rinehart and Hancock Prospecting and finds the negative characterisation in some quarters of Mrs Rinehart’s new sponsorship of another sport regrettable. Mrs Rinehart’s sponsorship of swimming spans more than three decades, ranging from swimming clinics for indigenous children in remote communities through to helping our high performance swimmers pursue their sporting dreams.
The support that Hancock Prospecting and Mrs Rinehart AO provides to Rowing Australia (RA) and most importantly its athletes, dating back to 2015, has been a game changer for our sport. RA is proud that it provides equitable athlete support across its programs.
Growing up on a dryland cropping and cattle farm near Coolatai, Lucy Coleman didn’t spend much time on the water. It wasn’t until the now World Cup 2 silver medallist began high school at St Hilda’s on the Gold Coast that she picked up an oar and began a career in rowingShe rowed at the Sydney University rowing club and was then invited to perfect her craft at the Hancock Prospecting Women’s National Training Centre in Penrith. It’s the base for the best of the best. Coleman’s parents still run the farm near Coolatai but she doesn’t get back as much as she would like thanks to a busy training schedule and overseas competition. But she’s hoping the sacrifices are worth it.
Hancock Prospecting and Hancock Agriculture were delighted to be the main sponsor for the 2022 Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) Convention and annual Awards Dinner, held on Wed 7 Sept at Crown Perth.
