The Australian Artistic Swimming team, development squad and coaches were on deck at our Perth Headquarters last month to learn about their Principal Partner, Hancock Prospecting. Our Executive Chairman, Mrs Gina Rinehart, is the largest individual supporter of Australian Olympic and Paralympic athletes, and through Hancock Prospecting Group, Roy Hill is an Australian Olympic Partner. In the latest edition of the Athlete Roadshow Series, employees from across the Hancock Prospecting Group briefed the team on the various operating businesses, our vital work in the community and the diverse range of career opportunities in mining. Hancock Agriculture businesses were on hand to provide the team with a nutritious lunch, including products from 2GR Wagyu, Kidman Pies and Bannister Downs flavoured milk. Artistic swimming is one of the four Olympic sports with Hancock Prospecting as its principal partner, along with swimming, rowing and volleyball.

2023

The Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA (PGA) Awards dinner, at Crown Botanicals last week, was a chance to glam up and reflect on a successful day of speakers and interaction at the annual PGA Convention held earlier in the day. The 2023 PGA Rural Achievement Award, for service to the agricultural industry, rural and regional Western Australia and the PGA was announced by PGA president Tony Seabrook. The winner was Gina Rinehart, executive chairman of both Hancock Prospecting and Hancock Agriculture, with the award accepted on her behalf by Hancock Agriculture CEO, Adam Giles.

But Mr Veldsman said that, under the Bill, there was no guarantee those different categories of driver would continue to be paid about the same. “We’re talking about draft legislation where the ‘full rate of pay’ is so unclear, so undefined, so broad and so open to speculation that we can’t say in future if this Bill is to actually pass that we can still do that,” he said. Mr Veldsman added a number of Hancock’s projects had already stalled due to red tape. Another major concern is a proposal to give casual workers the right to ask to convert to permanent employment after six months of regular hours.

5 October 2023.

Tony Seabrook expresses acknowledgement of Mrs Gina Rinehart AO’s extraordinary commitment to Agriculture & community.

5 October 2023.

Agriculture feeds us and our important allies overseas. Our clean gas keeps the lights on, and factories, hospitals and shops open from Tokyo to Toowoomba. At the Hancock Prospecting companies, we’re working in the bush every day to keep Australians warm, clothed, and well fed.

In every corner of this great country, Australians are chasing their dreams. To be the best at what they do, in Australia and on the world stage.

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.

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 the pension age again, delaying when superannuation can be accessed, allowing people to work more hours without losing the aged pension, increasing training programs for older workers, and pushing for an end to age discrimination in the workforce.