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BHP defends place in sport
05.11.2022
BHP has come out swinging against accusations of "sportswashing", with the mining giant saying its major investment in AFLW is bringing new female and Indigenous players into the national game. BHP corporate affairs manager Chris Cottier said: "We have a genuine partnership and shared commitment to supporting women and girls to get out on the footy field and play the sport they love," he said.
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How mining dominates the economy (in seven charts)
04.11.2022
Australia’s big miners including BHP, Rio Tinto, Fortescue and companies controlled by Gina Rinehart paid more than $28.5 billion in tax in 2020-21, accounting for nearly a third of total corporate tax revenue.
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Cult-of-victimhood – Netball Australia vs Gina Rinehart
03.11.2022
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
31.10.2022
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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SUBBING OUT THE SPONSORS?
29.10.2022
“I thought the statement from Roy Hill (majority owned by Hancock) was excellent, in the sense that they clearly articulated what they’re doing in the Indigenous welfare space. No one from Western Australia and certainly nobody who knows even a little bit about the company would have been surprised by that. When you dive into these issues, you need to have considered, sober conversations. As stakeholders agitate, companies may wonder whether they should sit out the game. Story by Helen Trinca
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Paul Kent: Why Socceroos virtue signalling against Qatar is just empty words
29.10.2022
Broadcast money and sponsorships are the two great cash cows in this country. Netball fails to justify its price as a television product for years, bouncing around the networks because it struggles to attract ratings, and just dropped the ball with the other. And this won’t make more people want to watch it. Rinehart loomed as a saviour, particularly after the lesson of the grand final sell-off, but the players’ politics saw an end to that financial windfall. It has not cost the team, but their entire sport.
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Wesfarmers boss and former Olympian Rob Scott backs in Gina Rinehart’s sponsorship of rowing
28.10.2022
“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
28.10.2022
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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