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Court fix & kid’s clinic on the ball
Roy Hill and Atlas Iron were thrilled to be involved in this project which is part of a long-term and ongoing commitment initiated by Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill Executive Chairman, Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, to enhance the wellbeing of communities where we work and aligns closely with Mrs Rinehart’...
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Calls for more garbage trucks to include mandatory safety warning systems
Calls are growing to make safety warning systems mandatory on garbage trucks after a renowned doctor was killed in New South Wales. The technology is already in place in Perth, thanks to Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, who stepped in after learning of the tragedy.
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Veterans’ Employment Program
We’ve launched a striking new recruitment campaign to encourage more veterans to join us. Our collective vision across the Hancock Prospecting Group of companies is to create new pathways and increased employment opportunities for ex-defence members (EDM). We know we already have veterans in every part of the business. ...
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Family-friendly fun in the City of Light this summer
Having played a significant role in the 2023 City of Lights series, Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill has stepped up again thanks to the generosity and keen support of Executive Chairman, Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, partnering on two of the City’s most popular events.“I am delighted that Hancock Prospecting ...
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Intergenerational Report: Experts say solution to age-old problem is to make us work longer
Business leaders, economists and seniors groups are urging Anthony Albanese to develop an ambitious blueprint aimed at encouraging older Australians to stay in the workforce for longer as a way to ease the growing tax burden on the young while the country’s population ages. The policy prescriptions include raising ...
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Older workers to be encouraged back into the workforce
One of the key messages from Treasury's Intergenerational Report, released yesterday, is that Australia will have a dwindling pool of workers over the next 40 years as the population's average age increases. The Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he wants to get older people working if they want to. But older workers ...
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Family-friendly fun in City of Light this summer
The City of Perth will be the place to be this New Year's Eve and Australia Day 2024 thanks to a partnership with Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill. Having played a significant role in the 2023 City of Lights series, Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill has stepped up again thanks to the ...
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Ageing population sparks calls to cut senior workforce tax barriers
With the Australian population set to age, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) says the government needs to “remove unfair tax and red tape barriers stopping Australian pensioners, veterans, and students who want to work.” Research Fellow at the IPA Saxon Davidson told Oliver Peterson on Perth Live that Australia ...
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Let Pensioners Work
“Age-old problem needs future-proofing” is missing an important component in the worker shortage debate, the harsh treatment by the Federal Government of aged Australians and other pensioners who would otherwise like to continue working.Let’s look after our own better and remove the incomes test. Allow those pensioners who ...
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LISTEN TO THE BUSH LEADERS
I listened intently to them as well as to Gina Rinehart who gave her views on what governments need to do to ensure we continue to enjoy the lifestyle we have grown accustomed to. My personal view is our governments need to listen to the Rinehart has to say. We ...
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Hear from the Perth council about its high tech rubbish trucks
Rubbish trucks are full of blind spots that can often lead to fatal crashes. For the first time in Perth they've been fitted out with technology that could save lives.
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‘This is a very big issue’: Mining magnate Gina Rinehart takes aim at net zero policy, calls for more practical policies
Gina Rinehart has offered a scathing assessment of the costs involved with achieving net zero at a regional summit, warning of the dire consequences for the agriculture industry. Ms Rinehart took aim at the handouts for “climate research and government advisers”, highlighting the angst she sees in the agriculture industry. “...
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STOP BEATING AROUND THE BUSH ON REGIONS
While business leaders and policymakers were converging in Perth on Monday for The Australian’s inaugural Bush Summit, more than 2000km away, in the state’s remote Kimberley region, pastoralist Chris Towne and a group of workers were battling to contain a massive fire sweeping across the plains of Gogo ...
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The Courier-Mail Bush Summit 2023: Keynote with Mrs Gina Rinehart AO
Keynote speech with Gina Rinehart, Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting Group.
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RINEHART ALARM ON NET ZERO TARGETS
Hancock Prospecting executive chair Gina Rinehart says the costs to agriculture of achieving net-zero targets has the potential to increase food prices at the supermarket and force farming families off their land. Ms Rinehart, in her keynote speech at The Courier-Mail Bush Summit, also sounded the alarm on red tape ...
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We honour their sacrifice and service
50th Anniversary of the end of Australia's participation in the Vietnam war.
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Gina Rinehart’s bold vision for Australia’s future as she warns the country could face food shortages if nothing is done
She sent her strongest message about the expensive bill farmers were facing to meet zero emission CO2 targets. Her Hancock Agriculture business runs 14 farm properties in Western Australia with 12,000 head of Wagyu beef cattle, one of the largest herds in the country. 'Agriculture usually doesn't have the financial resources that ...
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Gina Rinehart urges Albanese government to ease burden of net zero emissions on farmers as she calls for drastic red tape cut
The executive chair of Hancock Prospecting and Hancock Agriculture Gina Rinehart used the first Bush Summit in Western Australia to urge state and federal government to massively cut red tape, return regional revenue to the bush and ease the pain of net zero policies on farmers. Ms Rinehart delivered the ...
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