Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
Reply #323 –
By the way, I noticed Hancock went BANG! with a subsequent statement which hit NA and sportspeople wanting to make political statements right between the eyes.
UPDATE
This is what happens when sports people try and be smart, Gina aint playing scrabble here sunshsine.
From the HS
Indigenous netball star Donnell Wallam was reportedly left ‘distressed’ and ‘devastated’ by Hancock Prospecting’s bombshell decision to pull its proposed $15m of funding from the sport on Saturday.
Wallam was at the centre of player pushback to the proposed sponsorship from Gina Rinehart’s mining company, with reports she was uncomfortable with wearing the Hancock Prospecting logo on her uniform for her Diamonds debut against England on Wednesday night.
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The 28-year-old’s concerns revolve around comments made by Rinehart’s father Lang Hancock in the 1980s that sterilisation should be used to solve ‘the Aboriginal problem’.
Gina Rinehart has never made any public comments on her late father’s views.
However in the face of intense pressure, Wallam decided on Friday she would wear the logo on her uniform for her international debut.
In the end all Wallam’s deliberations and soul-searching were in vain as Hancock Prospecting withdrew its funding a day after the goal shooter made it clear she would wear the logo.