The Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine all of Queensland. This Future series major lunch event will identify the legacy opportunities and how industry and communities can benefit over the next 10 years and for decades to come. Join us as we discuss the region’s priorities for transport, infrastructure, sport, tourism and business, and highlight the catalytic impact an Olympics can have.
Read moreThey shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning.
We will remember them.
Queensland will host its biggest international event ever, billions of people will be watching from around the world. Our focus should be on the world’s best athletes and not political agendas. Gina Rinehart and Hancock Prospecting are proud to have been supporting Australian athletes to represent our country for many years, including as one of the two longest and continuous major supporters of Swimming Queensland.
Read moreSuccessful Australian businesswoman Gina Rinehart reported the increase in polar bear numbers in a lecture she gave to her former girls’ school; it sent the ‘fact’ checkers at the Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) into a spin resulting in a long essay that was short on facts and big on snow. How dare Ms Rinehart – whose profits from mining fund them – have an opinion on bears. I suspect Twiggy Forest is allowed to have an opinion on bears because he knows better than to explain that despite a decrease in the amount of ice at the North Pole, polar bear numbers have been increasing.
Read moreWe are pleased to confirm the appointment of John McKillop as the Chief Executive Officer of Hancock’s agricultural interests, including as the CEO of Kidman & Co, commencing on 1 November. John has an outstanding agricultural industry background, having held senior positions in multiple large, diversified agricultural businesses and industry bodies. John McKillop said “I am excited to be joining Mrs Rinehart and the teams at Hancock and Kidman. I have watched the rapid expansion of this business, together with the important improvements Garry has referred to, and what has been achieved is truly outstanding. I am looking forward to working with a Chairman and Boards that are focused on further growth, who are active with innovation and continuing with industry leading standards in employee safety and animal welfare.
Read moreWarmest congratulations to you all. I was certainly cheering even a bit more so seeing my fellow west Aussies win their medals! There are very few people who can say they have represented their country internationally, against the world’s best, so you have every reason after your immensely hard work, to be proud of yourselves – I know everyone in this room is. As is our company, Hancock prospecting, who has joined with me, for the last 30 years wanting to support w a swimming.
Read moreHancock Prospecting was again delighted to join as major sponsor of the event for the fifth year, following Executive Chairman Mrs. Gina Rinehart’s long term private support.
Mrs. Rinehart and on behalf of the Hancock Prospecting Group, thank all the volunteers and all those attending and supporting Parkerville. We wish Parkerville every success in raising more funds, and for their ongoing endeavours to help make a difference to these children and their mothers.
My time allocation doesn’t permit me to continue with other Australian women who inspire, so I will finish with quotes from a leader I do admire greatly, for her sense, bravery, leadership, duty to her country, and acting in its interests, even if not popular in noisy quarters, and I hope these quotes resonate, as we sure need better leadership in our country. Quoting from former Prime Minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher. “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
Read moreQueensland Community Foundation Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Achievement. Mrs Rinehart was announced as the 2021 award winner at a special lunch held in Brisbane on 10 September. The award was accepted on Mrs Rinehart’s behalf by her nominee Courtney Talbot.
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