
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.

We started competing in 2018, travelling around Australia to compete with the very best of the best. Having used many brands of beef, we were introduced to 2GR in early 2019 and have used 2GR Full Blood Wagyu Briskets at all competitions, winning the coveted 1st Place in Brisket at the 2019 Meatstock International Sydney, defeating the top 50 teams in Australia and 2nd Place in Brisket at the 2022 Meatstock International in Brazil.

The CEO of one of Australia’s largest cattle producers, John McKillop, has called for the government to rapidly build upon existing biosecurity measures and focus more to ensure Foot & Mouth Disease does not enter Australia. Gina Rinehart confirmed: “The threat of foot and mouth disease and other Cruel diseases, continue as a potentially devastating reality for our stock, that we must more actively protect our agricultural industry against. This protection must be real and certainly not less than what other countries are already providing.

Article by Cian Hussey.
19 August 2022.

Mines, gas projects, farms and other industries in Australia’s second-biggest resources market and third-biggest agriculture sector could be shut down by a bureaucrat’s decision, under secret legislation drafted by the Queensland Environment Department. Several high-level sources said the draft bill as circulated would give a bureaucrat, likely the Environment Department’s director-general, the power to wind back retrospectively existing environmental approvals, licences, and permits to slash production capacity.An industry source said: “It’s frankly outrageous. It would give power to a bureaucrat to unilaterally and retrospectively close businesses. It’s sovereign risk of the highest order.”