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Media Release | City of Perth | Summer nights aglow with City of Light Shows
“Perth is synonymous with light and after the success of the CBD’s first drone show this February, the City of Light shows will honour our new brand and reinforce that no city lights up like Perth,” City of Perth Lord Mayor Zempilas said. The City of Light Shows are proudly presented by the Hancock Group of companies, including Hancock Prospecting, Roy Hill and Atlas Iron. The City will be illuminated over the summer with six special light shows to wow the people of Perth from November to February.
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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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Atlas Iron Recognised at Australian Mining Prospect Awards 2022
Atlas won the Indigenous and Community Engagement Award for it’s awarding it’s joint venture mining contract for the Miralga mine to East West Pilbara (EWP) and Ozland in August 2021. Atlas Iron’s General Manager – Projects, Stacey Brown, was recognised with the Project Lead of the Year Award for the Sanjiv Ridge and Miralga hematite iron ore mines, two mines that celebrated first ore at the height of the Covid pandemic on time and on budget.
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Australia’s ‘nice problem’ from the Ukraine war
“It’s a nice problem to have,” said CommSec chief economist Craig James. “Demand for our commodities is soaring, and our trade surplus remains significant. Dollars are being injected into the economy at a time when the Reserve Bank is trying to slow growth in activity, income and spending. “At the same time, imports are also growing – highlighting an improvement in supply as well as higher prices. Overall, the trade situation is good news.”
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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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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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Warren Mundine: Netball stars could learn a thing or two from Ash Barty – an Indigenous role model who refused to use her heritage to trash her country
Our ancestors fought and won huge battles so Indigenous athletes had the same opportunities as everyone else - not so they would still be shackled by the racism of history.
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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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Fraser in fight for Rinehart
OLYMPIC swimming legend Dawn Fraser has thrown her support behind mining magnate Gina Rinehart amid the sponsorship scandal that's left Netball Australia on the brink of financial disaster. Fraser, a four-time gold medallist and one of the country's most celebrated athletes, also said she feared that Australia's richest person would now stop sponsoring sport.
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‘What are these women doing?: Fraser slams Rinehart attack as $15m netball saga drags on
“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.”
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Olympic legend Dawn Fraser’s brutal message for Australia’s netballers as she throws her support behind Gina Rinehart
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.
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Righteous brigade ignores Gina Rinehart’s unwavering support for Indigenous communities and Australian sport
Yet because of historic comments made by her father, Ms Rinehart was discriminated against in this most public and objectifying way possible. That reductionist, reflexive reaction is shameful, and degrades the contribution any of us make in the here and now if we are forever going to be judged by those who came before us.If we start going down that path, where we can’t have sophisticated and nuanced conversations, then we’ll be left with a shell of our society and the financial losses of Netball Australia will look pale in comparison.
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Hedland Amateur Swimming Club ready for exciting summer season
“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.
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Weekend bonanza proves a perfect 10
It was another Telethon weekend to remember with lots of laughs, love and even a mankini! These were our highlights 1. Hitting $500 million 2. PM in PJs 3. Lip-sync battle 4. Rinehart’s donation 5. Pie face 6. Hospital visit 7. Mankini 8. Brand new car 9. Shirts off 10. Kids take over.
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Sanjiv Manchanda Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Iron supporting Telethon
Sanjiv Manchanda, Gary Korte, Gerhard Veldsman and teams supporting Telethon.
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