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THE GOLD STANDARD
Australia’s most successful swim team has closed out the world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, in style to finish top of the medals table with a record haul that may never be beaten. After eight days of intense competition, the Dolphins proved themselves to be the best swim team on ...
Read moreAUSSIES COP GOLDEN SNUB
“We (Australia) have always looked at, and I was brought up by the Don Talbot era, that gold medals were the most important. So from our perspective , we were the best performed team on the gold medal count. “And when you look at the website and you look at the ...
Read moreFARMERS FEAR LEGISLATION COULD SEND THEM BROKE
Farmers are worried they could go bankrupt or be sent to jail for falling foul of contentious new Aboriginal cultural heritage laws, a fiery South West community forum has heard. Another issue that emerged as a flashpoint for Waroona landholders at the packed-out Monday town hall meeting is the high ...
Read more‘HIDDEN’ HERITAGE LAWS STIR ANXIETY
“We wake up in the morning and decide if something needs to get done, and then we get it done,” he said. “If we need to build a fence, we build the fence, but this sort of thing could delay us for months even on a simple thing like that. “...
Read moreGina Rinehart watches on as Aussie swimming team blows the world away
Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has made an eye-catching appearance on a day when the Aussie swimming team went berserk Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has made an eye-catching appearance on a day when the Aussie swimming team went berserk. Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart picked a ...
Read moreMrs Gina Rinehart AO celebrating our incredible Aussie athletes at the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatic Championships
Fri, 14 July 2023 – Sun, 30 July 2023.
Read moreWorker shortages hit WA
“Job number one for Premier Cook is to fix Western Australia’s worst-in-the-nation worker shortage levels, which is stifling business performance and punishing customers,” Mr Davidson said. “We are calling on Premier Cook to lead the charge in National Cabinet to have discriminatory tax and red tape barriers that are ...
Read moreHancock integrates project plans
GINA Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has been quietly implementing changes this year that will reshape the way it operates. One key development was the acquisition of properties in West Perth so that staff at subsidiaries Roy Hill Holdings and Atlas Iron can be co-located with the parent company. Another key ...
Read moreGina Rinehart donates $16 million to boost healthcare for rural Australians
Royal Flying Doctor Service (South Eastern Section) Chief Executive Officer Greg Sam said the $4 million boost for NSW comes at a “challenging” time in its history as the RFDS had played a critical role delivering essential healthcare and more than 32,000 Covid vaccinations to remote and vulnerable communities during the pandemic“. ...
Read moreRinehart digs in for charity
Healthcare for Australians living in rural and remote areas will be given a $16m lift thanks to donations to the Royal Flying Doctors from Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart. The Rinehart Medical Foundation and Hancock Prospecting will provide major cash injections to the NSW, Queensland and Western Australian sectors of ...
Read moreRinehart in $16m boost to Flying Doctor
Health care for Australians living in rural and remote areas will be given a $16m lift thanks to donations to the Royal Flying Doctor from Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart. The Rinehart Medical Foundation and Hancock Prospecting will give major cash boosts to the Queensland, NSW and WA sectors of ...
Read moreRoyal Flying Doctor Service in $8M partnership with Rinehart Medical and Roy Hill
Iron ore magnate Gina Rinehart has donated $8 million to the Royal Flying Doctor Service to buy a state-of-the-art aircraft that will help save lives in the most isolated corners of the State. The Rinehart Medical Foundation and Roy Hill will contribute $4 million each to buy and fund an aeromedical fit-out ...
Read moreBHP chief Mike Henry warns the Govt’s IR policy will make Australia less competitive
BHP boss Mike Henry has doubled down on criticism of the Federal Government’s crackdown on labour hire laws, arguing it is taking Australia in the “wrong direction” and will make the country less competitive. “An industrial relations system that delivers productivity, flexibility, and competitiveness to drive job creation and ...
Read moreWA supercharges the surplus to $19 billion
Strong commodity prices and WA’s powerhouse resources sector have played an “outsized” role in boosting the Federal Government’s coffers, with the Budget surplus ballooning to $19 billion at the end of May. New figures from the Department of Finance show a surge in company and personal tax payments underwriting ...
Read moreHeritage laws need careful study: Rinehart
Gina Rinehart says adding a granny flat to a large backyard could be held up by contentious Indigenous heritage laws set to come into effect in Western Australia next month. Mrs Rinehart joins critics of the proposal who have described it as "shambolic" and said it would probably hold up ...
Read moreHow one family helped to shape WA | The untold history of Western Australia
The modern history of the Hancocks is well known but earlier generations also had a big impact on our State’s development It is quite a picture. The striking white horses kick up dust as they work in unison to pull the coach through the WA outback. Five men sit ...
Read moreAtlas delighted again to support the Lake Karrinyup Country Club (Inc) Women’s Charity Day
The charity day raises funds for various charities which this year included Parkerville Children and Youth Care, Ngala and Spectrum Space. An amazing $55,000 was raised making it Lake Karrinyup Country Club’s most successful charity day! Congratulation to all those who organised and participated in the event.
Read moreAboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (2023) causing angst for farmers and miners
WA LEGAL firms and mining companies have reacted to the imminent introduction of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (2023) by staging their own information sessions and creating online resources to inform farmers, pastoralists and mining interests about the impact of the new legislation on their activities. The act comes into effect ...
Read moreNew laws likely to ‘bring agriculture to a halt’ in State
A respected WA pastoralist says her family will have to scrap years of planned works under the new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act, claiming the legislation will “bring agriculture to a halt”. The 2022 WA Rural Woman of the Year finalist said she was also concerned the legislation, while giving Aboriginal people ...
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