Gina Rinehart, Hancock Prospecting and the Australian Women's Netball Team

Gina Rinehart has sponsored the Australian Women's Olympic Swimming Team and the Australian Women's Netball Team, but an indigenous player on the team has raised an objection to the Hancock Prospecting logo (Gina Rinehart's mining company) being on the team uniform. Other players have supported her in this opposition.
What do you think of this issue? Is the criticism that is often levelled at Gina Rinehart deserved or undeserved? Come and have a coffee and a chat with me to discuss!
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[@MelPikos]

Would love to hear what you all think about this issue! Please let me know.

[@Mangiwau]

it’s great that Gina has pulled the pin on those netballers.. why mining gets bashed from pillar to post can only be explained by miseducation.. all products that enhance lives on this planet are the results of what we as humans mine … hence my word condensation “mining underpins humanity”

[@jamessmyth5949]

Big thumbs up to Gina, Australian Netball can get by on chook raffles to fund themselves. The issue here is that her father Lang Hankock said some inappropriate things about Aboriginal people back in the 80's which one of their players took offence at. He said that they should be sterilised. Lang has been dead for 30 years so it makes no sense as to why they are making an issue out of this. Gina didn't make those comments and her mother was Aboriginal. So Aussie Netball are trying to crucify her as guilt by association. Good on Gina for tearing up the sponsorship deal. If any other potential sponsor has any sense they won't come to their rescue either, otherwise Australian Netball will probably find some other dirt to dig up about them in order to ruin their reputation.

[@jarradbaker8200]

The only loser here is netball and in particular aboriginal netballers, alls this sort of thing does is create more division

[@davidhepburn9328]

Cars ,planes,textiles,solar panels,playing under lights ,petrol!Where do these products come from girls?

[@wyattfamily8997]

Good on you Gina,..... "get woke, go broke". They'll have to sell a lot of scones to be able to continue. It would have been simpler for Netball Australia to "lose" the team of whiners and replace them and keep the funding, but that would take courage instead they are "coerced" by the team menbers, and place the sport in jeopardy. Well done "woke", you reap what you sow.

[@coolyajets8638]

Here we go again the 1.5% Abo bringing the whole of netball sponsoring down - Gina you are a legend

[@andymurdock4970]

Agree with you Cool. This sensitive idiot just cost Australia Netball 15 million. She needs to drink a glass of concrete and harden up! I'm pretty sure she can go troll through the last 50 years to try and find a quote from somebody to cause them trouble. Gina is my new hero

[@johangouws8855]

Good on Gina for pulling the sponsorship….. don’t like prospecting sponsors but gladly wear clothing from oil byproducts….

[@fiigmusic2684]

they wear 'Origin' they burn and mine coal. if you want to fight back, take the money and use the money for awareness

[@keithwillis5207]

Not a fan Gina but she had no choice. BTW, there should be a tax on mining profits and that money should all go into public health and education. And I am not a raging lefty. Just someone who thinks the country can do better.

[@joshlock4627]

@@keithwillis5207 you sound like a socialist !!! Tax everything for unemployed etc . Less tax - more spending It’s Gina’s money - she can do with as she likes !!!

[@leongt1954]

It seem Rinehat has pulled out of the deal so netball Aus has just shot themselves in the foot and lost 15 million in sponsorship

[@wyattfamily8997]

Good on Gina, "get woke, go broke", their loss not Gina's.

[@geralddyer8934]

Did someone forget to tell the players they are employees not management. Soon to be unemployed

[@jamesrustles8670]

Way to go Wallam costing the team $15 million before your debut

[@jarradbaker8200]

Yep one whining sook costs a whole sport 15mil, bet the other players are secretly fuming, but there too woke to ever admit it

[@earlnoli]

@@jarradbaker8200 definitely the women are afraid. Just imagine the label you will receive if you are not woke. 😂 They are slaves to political correctness... they have no choice but turn a blind eye else get cancelled by their woke peers.

[@alaiseatokuma-cull4258]

Gina doesn't blow the trumpet about what charity she sponsor n what she gives for the wellbeing of our State. Western Australia, she just do it !!! thank you GINA . XXX

[@coolyajets8638]

From India - great decision Gina - $15m vs 1 Abo

[@kacha-kela5061]

What's the matter

[@toeputtsnz783]

Wow that backfired in there faces haha totally ungrateful 🤣

[@danutakkkk9069]

Gina 👍👍👍

[@AussieRoos]

Go Woke, go Broke 😂

[@BDub2024]

I feel that the girl and Netball association have been very naive and ill advised. Hancock is a serious large corporation putting up $15 million of their own cash to help netball from the grassroots up. Hancock also do also a large amount of philanthropic work in the community, including the indigenous community where they provide opportunities and funding. Real life examples of giving. Then you have a player wanting to dredge up comments from 40 years from the original founder and major owner of the company. Then Hancock has to go through all the negative publicity associated with some views of an 80 year old guy from 40 years ago. What company in the world would want to do that. For some point scoring. This is serious sponsorship money and is largely philanthropic in nature, as Hancock won't be increasing sales. I don't really blame kid, because certainly she's naive and been ill advised. But netball association should really know better. Who is going to develop netball players in indigenous areas now... who will provide the funding and opportunities for young girls.

[@majorlaff8682]

If these sports 'stars' are so good, why do they need sponsors? If you can't afford to participate, don't expect private or public money so you can indulge yourself. Try working in a proper job that improves society and the economy instead of being a parasite on others.

[@wyattfamily8997]

Well said, but "woke" always think their special.

[@andymurdock4970]

Well said Major

[@adamstokes]

So let’s review. A nearly bankrupt female competition rejects a $15 m sponsorship (donation) from Australia’s richest woman (and person) because of what some dead old guy said nearly half a century ago. Wow! Good luck girls. #getwokegobroke

[@jskelton90]

worst review ever. 2 stars

[@georgepearson5849]

Good onya Gina. Haven't these stupid people learnt you don't bite the hand that feeds you. I'd have pulled the money too..

[@lesleywallace5748]

Good on Gina let them find the money elsewhere, no money no games ,no wages ,sport is onltb

[@Monica-bp2pd]

Good on Gina ❤

[@pomaze1]

Well done Gina 👍👍👍🦘🇦🇺

[@meo9987]

Stand firm Gina, to me you're much more admired after this! Somewhere we will have to stop this kind behaviour, it takes a real aussie and a real hard working billionaire who is truly caring for its people, who has high intelligence to stand up. Just like my boy coming home from primary school asking me: why we were told how bad we were treating the indigenous people, it's not us doing that right? Sadly too many virtual signalling in our schools, teaching our kids to feel bad generation by generation to pay the debts only because our ancestors (by the way, we're migrants) did something bad. Those spoiled players and even the netball Australia are into virtual signalling, just talk no action. Gina does a lot for indigenous people quietly. Well done, Gina! For god's sake, leave the politics out of our sports!

[@justink1075]

There is no hate for Gina, just Love.❤

[@aorjarsrelaxingvideos6126]

Well done Gina 👏 they don't deserve it. No other companies will get involved

[@Innerlight320]

Visit Victoria 👍

[@daveyork0]

Lang Hancock spoke of 'half caste' Aboriginals as some sort of subhuman concern that could be disposed of like you dispose of a colony of cats. That's the Hancock in Hancock Prospecting. He was more things than an old man with a genocide fantasy and he was enough of a hypocrite that he married his Filipino housekeeper. No way should indigenous players in netball have to promote his family name. That name is even too hot for Gina Rinehart who dropped it right upon getting married and doesn't go back to it even after her divorce. At least iron ore isn't radioactive and doesn't pollute the inner ecosystem like some of the alcohol, tobacco and gambling sponsors of sporting events seen in my time. And I give Gina credit for supporting swimmers and netball thus far.

[@coolyajets8638]

You just can't forget - ok see you later - no money for netball

[@jarradbaker8200]

Yawn another woke hypocrite flog

[@daveyork0]

@@jarradbaker8200 I'd feel better about it if Lang Hancock changed his tune on racial supremacy before he died.

[@rowdy5697]

@@daveyork0 How do you know what he thought before he died? He married a Filipino. You wouldn't have a clue. You take people as you find them and form your opinions from life experience, obviously his opinion formed over many years wasn't very good. Comments made in 1984, the man has been dead for 30 years for god's sake. Your parents probably made some comments that they regret, should we hold it against you.

[@melpikos8533]

Since when did we start persecuting daughters for things their fathers said over 40 years ago?

[@andrewkeily7520]

I want to have coffee with you!

[@melpikos8533]

How about lunch instead?

[@Mangiwau]

Mining underpins humanity

[@saminsiddiquee2059]

Leave your phone and car, start using pigeons

[@jarradbaker8200]

Another woke hypocrite haha, bet you use products from mining everyday 🤡

[@suanne011]

Gina has been sponsoring the Fever and WA netball for years. Why all the noise now! Go woke Go broke is so true

[@patrickmcmahon8997]

Gina for Prime Minister I reckon.

[@bindiboo001]

Give me a couple hundred million and I'll turn it into billions also, stupid comment that one. Why does a sport that has no competition from the 4 other country's that play netball need money to win, you could drag any Australian girls off the streets to play for the diamonds and they would still have no competition. I really don't get how people can be interested in a sport that only a couple countries play its like being interested in competitive knife throwing lol

[@melpikos8533]

Plenty of people have inherited a few hundred and turned it into zero.

[@alanlane3670]

Do they wear Nike shoes......?????

[@kasinathar1874]

Mr Hancock said the Hybrids are rorting the system. The one’s with blonde hair and blue eyes. Anything wrong with that?😂😂😂

[@jskelton90]

Imagine not wanting the name of a person who called for the genocide of your race to be plastered on your work uniform. The nerve.

[@rob6543]

Poor gina , give them nothing gina pump in the the young kids that haven’t been brain washed, 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@joshlock4627]

Go woke - go broke . I admit I only would watch the boring game for 5 minutes - for all the wrong reasons

[@baldwin9180]

All this racial abuse happening in Australia and former anglo saxon english speaking former colonies of Great Britain I have been told about by family that emigrated to Canada as well as to Australia. It comes to this that to average Canadians and Australians Aboriginals and First Nation people are a pain in the ass and should be disposed of. Where ever as a Dutchman I start a conversation with a Brit, I was and will be told that the Netherlands left their colonies with nothing, as where the English left their colonies in a Paradise state. So untrue! India faced massacres between Hindus and Muslims when the english left caused by english colonial rule. In former dutch colonies threre are no original people living as minorities as second class citizens. The fact is that public relations and propaganda of the english have always even outclassed the likes of Joseph Goebbles of the Third Reich. I support Donnell Wallam in her fight against Australian racism and hypocrasy.

[@scottloughton8880]

Is he intentionally ignoring the issues or is he just ignorant? Hmm.

[@melpikos8533]

I’m not in the business of holding daughters accountable for their fathers words over 40 years ago and neither should you or netball Australia.

[@glenntoon4407]

Good on her 👏 for pulling out its her money and she's paying the bills .so guess will be seeing alot more of the girls on only fans now to pay there way lol, good job girls, here's a tip don't bite the hand that feeds you

[@shagga2273]

In simple terms, ITS BLACK & WHITE