Essay by Eric Worrall
The Australian Netball Association has just wiped out their own funding, by alienating Australia’s richest woman with their green wokery.
Netball in turmoil as Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting pulls ‘ground-breaking’ $15m sponsorship
A week from hell for Netball Australia has taken another twist after Rinehart’s mining giant pulled out of the historic deal.
Gina Rinehart’s mining empire Hancock Prospecting has withdrawn its controversial $15m sponsorship deal with Netball Australia after it sparked a week of turmoil in the sport.
Players were reluctant to embrace the mining giant’s backing and wear its branding on their playing dresses after Indigenous player Donnell Wallam voiced concerns over comments made by the company’s founder, and Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock.
The players’ questioning of Hancock Prospecting’s ideals relating to climate change further made them uncomfortable with the association.
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Netball Australia had labelled the sponsorship deal as a “ground-breaking” partnership for the future of the sport, but the deal was a Pyrrhic victory, given the damage it caused in player relations.
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Read more: https://7news.com.au/sport/netball/netball-in-turmoil-as-gina-rineharts-hancock-prospecting-pulls-ground-breaking-15m-sponsorship-c-8625264
Perhaps the players who just killed their own funding could spend a moment reflecting on where all the material required to build their green energy revolution is supposed to come from, if mining is such an objectionable activity.
I don’t like calling people names, but I don’t think you need a crystal ball to figure out what I’m thinking right now. I feel sorry for whichever association members put effort into landing this sponsorship deal, only to see it torn apart by their ungrateful players.
Correction (EW): The Summary on the WUWT home page and Twitter said “Basketball”, should have said “Netball”. Apologies for any confusion.
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So what are all those EVs to be built with? Unicorn hair?
The new Rolls BEV has 3022kg of exotic materials including a 700kg battery. It is two door with 4 seats and a bit of room for luggage.
Ford’s Model T had a mass of 730kg total. It seated 5 people along with livestock.
Vehicle engineers have collectively gone out to lunch. They no longer care about resource conversation.
Netball??? Should have said NutBall
First time in 61 years I have ever heard of it.
Oh Garry you are really missing some thing. But you should see those leggy Shelias playing beach volley ball. You have not lived.
Ps I am 80 + tax.
I need to watch it then
???
G’Day Bryan A
“Netball???”
In ‘ye olde days’, the 1950’s, it was called “women’s basketball”. Different rules from men’s basketball. Like what? If you receive the ball, one of your feet must remain in the same position until you pass the ball. No player is allowed on all parts of the court. (And there’s plenty more differences.)
(When the two upper grades in a one-teacher primary school provide just enough girls to form a team [7], we boys had to form a team for them to practice against.)
I’ve got an electric bicycle. I love it because the majority of the electricity used to power it is generated by marvellous fossil fuels.
The battery cost me £500. However, this week I discovered that the price of a replacement battery has shot up to £1000! The fight for the raw materials that go into batteries has very quickly become a hell of an economic tussle.
My battery is new, so it’s got at least 5 years left in it. What the prices of new batteries will be when I need to replace it I dread to think! However, I can comfort myself in the knowledge that the Rolls Royces and the Teslas are going to have eye watering battery replacement costs.
Sounds like a prime target for thieves then!
Yep – it stays inside my flat and whenever I do leave it outside it has about 3 chains on it and the battery comes with me in my rucksack!
“it stays inside my flat”
be careful doing that
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-09-26/electric-bike-caused-fatal-bristol-tower-block-fire
Inside your flat what… and will that flat what no longer be flat?
It’s the correct word for what colonials call an apartment
Back in my day we didn’t have many conversations with the resources, but if we did they were one-sided.
I continuously have conversations with ‘resources’ such as creativity, forwardness, #lives matter, grass roots etc,etc.
The current one is whether to create an up-swelling dialogue relating to a ‘Woke’ dictionary of words and phrases. Any ideas anybody?
Immediate action is needed here as the tipping point fast approaches and it is vital that we actually understand what we are saying; let alone others required to listen.
Those using that terminology don’t even understand what THEY are saying, so I don’t think it matters.
Is that the $400,000 Rolls? Seems to signal a lot of fossil fuel derived virtue signaling.
I had to double check that curb weight. It depends exactly which configuration but I spotted the Rolls Royce Spectre with curb weight of 6,559 lb. Three TONS! My dad once owned a 1950 Chrysler Royal, when Detroit was producing Big Iron, and it had a curb weight of only 3,730 lb!
“3022kg of exotic materials including a 700kg battery”
bloat, bloat, bloat, then you have to stop it and make it go around corners. Good luck with that!
These people suffer from the same malady as that fellow who wanted to ban all farming. They are more interested in virtue signalling for their Neo-Marxist religion (even if they don’t consciously know what they are a part of) than actually surviving.
Perhaps we should tell them what the aircraft they fly everywhere in is made from. Watch their heads explode.
They are powered by unicorn farts…
Next their other major sponsor, Origin Energy may up an leave.
Oh and now there is this
https://7news.com.au/sport/netball/netball-watches-on-as-gina-rineharts-hancock-prospecting-donates-1-million-to-telethon7-just-hours-after-cutting-ties-c-8632037
Reminds me of the cartoon drawing of the hand holding a cocked gun with the barrel pointed backwards.
Clearly need to take there lesson from science rebels in the earlier article and glue there hands to the court 🙂
Or maybe Ms. Hancock noticed that Netball, like other women’s sports, was never going to be profitable because even women won’t watch women’s sports.🏀
She supports a number of sports not just womens ones
But her father Lang Hancock died 30 years ago and the royalties based business he passed to his daughter and grandchildren has grown enourmously under his daughters leadership , helped by the collosal boom in ironore prices and production.
Hancock in his pre iron ore prospector days was an WA outback grazier who worked with and employed aboringinal stockmen who he thought very highly of.
Thus his outdated by today’s standards comments about ‘ half casts’ and such who lived in cities and rural towns
yup if they worked and kept themselves tidy he helped a huge amount
he was justifiably against the whinging handout mobs that bludged off the working ones and govt
Uhhhh…don’t bite the hand that feeds you?
Can anyone believe that this organization didn’t have the cojones to push back on the irrelevant claims by juveniles being “offended” on behalf of other people, and so deprived the sport of existentially needed sponsor funding that would have saved them from financial meltdown.
Other sports administrators and aboriginal support organizations will be falling over themselves to receive Gina Reinhardt’s generous $15 million support funding.
Another instance of “Perpetually Offended Obtuse Progressives” (POOPs) having a collective fit and falling in it.
excellent moniker for em
i am stealing it, TA 😉
… or they are Perturbed by Proxy (PbP) – getting upset on other persons’ behalf when said other persons don’t give a d@mn.
Thanks for that.
Yes, it’s women’s netball
Usually characterised by a distinct lack of said items.
Not necessarily in today’s woke world!
Yes, but one does have to ask these days “What is a Woman”…see the film!
We are interglacial.
If we don’t get hotter, we get colder.
What is it about this simple concept these dumb f***ers don’t understand?
I thought you were aware that these geniuses had come to the wonderful conclusion that temperatures wouldn’t go down – that the new normal was for temperatures to either stay about the same or go up. I kid you not.
Obviously we have good athletes, but not good in the brains department, when you cut off your major sponsor, who pays your wages and accommodation. The same has happened with our cricketer Pat Cummins, who decided that Alinta was a climate change heathen. Cummins has become a public activists to block sponsorship from Alinta. Meanwhile, Alinta is investing in one of the biggest wind farms in Australia and where would you get a more greener sponsor than that.
The problem was about racism (not about green issues at all) as shown below in a newspaper extract.
First Nations player Donnell Wallam raised concerns about wearing the Hancock logo on her uniform given the founder of the company once voiced his plan for eliminating “the problem” of Indigenous people.
Lang Hancock, in a 1984 television interview, said most of the issues came from “the half-castes” but a solution would be to “dope the water up so they were sterile, and they would breed themselves out in future and that would solve the problem”.
My understanding is that the logo is “Hancock Prospecting”
As one of Gina’s aboriginal supporters said –
(paraphrased)
“who in this day and age holds people accountable for what their forebears may have said back in different times?”
Again, this is just another case of some people feigning “offence” on behalf of other people.
Look up the meaning of –
“vicarious”
actually ussa and UK sure do do that! ie the pictures and statues being defaced ripped down all over same crap here in aus as well.
200+yrs zero actual effect on a single one living now but still they are soooo upset
And as an Australian I drive a Mitsubishi 4WD and they once made the Zero fighter aircraft in WWII that bombed Darwin. Would you like me to continue with Volkswagen or can you reconcile yourself?
I drive a Mitsubishi too.
V6 Outlander.
Does everything I need now.
Couldn’t afford a new Landcruiser to replace my 22 year old 100 Series.
Being legally of the Aboriginal race they will expect the Goverment to pick up the tab.
Perhaps we should use DNA to clarify just who is Abloriginal.
Michael VK5ELL
Australia moved away from ‘blood-quotum’ definition in the 70’s and the definition was adjusted to those who “identify” as aboriginal.
yeah and FAR too many are claiming to be…shiny white but if you state it the wokes take it as so because to question it? would allow even more “hurtfeeling/offence” claims
evidence andrew bolt furore
Here in the ‘Great White(snowy) North i.e. Canada the latest idea is pretendians (self identified indians) are no longer allowed. Native bands now are demanding gatekeeping rights.
I heard uk buyers nabbing old aus landys and sending to factory for total rebuild chassis n guts and its still cheaper than a new landy
whoda thunkit;-)
I drive a Fiat, do I have to apologize for what Mussolini did in N. Africa?
But VW has a dark WW2 history too. Forced/slave labour.
good lord WHO doesnt have a less than stellar past? Bayer was IG Farben usa millionaires funded germanys war.
hmm like now funding ukies
not much changes does it;-)
once made the Zero fighter aircraft in WWII that bombed Darwin
Sorry, Observa, but that is a total myth.
Mitsubishi Navy Type 0 carrier fighter (aka Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen, aka Zeke, aka Zero) did NOT bomb Darwin in February 1942.
Never happened.
A lie.
The bombing was done by Aichi D3A Type 99 dive bombers (Val) and Nakaima B5N Type 97 torpedo/level bombers (Kate).
The Mitsubishi aircraft did not bomb. They flew SEAD and air superiority.
So… Now you know 😛
Pedantic trivia details matter too!
I’ll…. ummm… leave now, shall I?
I’ll defer to your greater knowledge as I wasn’t there at the time but there was a lot of them from the carriers that attacked Pearl Harbour and subsequent attacks in the North of Australia-
Bombing of Darwin | Australian War Memorial (awm.gov.au)
In any case the Zero was a better fighter than anything the Yanks had during the Solomons campaign but having to fly some distance from the north the Coastwatchers could give advance warning to US fighters to get airborne at height to counteract their inferiority-
The Coast Watchers by Eric Feldt – Penguin Books Australia
As for Volkswagen-
Archive: Volkswagen Beetle and Adolf Hitler’s car for the people (whichcar.com.au)
and then came dieselgate
Um, Volkswagen is a German company. They bombed the crap out of the Brits in WWII.
mitsy bought the engines rights from uk and also used them in wolselys I gather. I had a 24/80 bluestreak and was in the club remember finding that amusing
Ford had a factory near Berlin making trucks for the German army; after the war he (unsuccessfully) attempted to sue the US government for damage caused by US bombing raids.
Not to mention the Chase National Bank which, throughout the war, sold Nazi war bonds to American citizens, helping to raise money for the German war effort.
That was an example of racism in 1984 by someone who is not Gina.
Tell me, would you like to be held personally responsible for the things your father said or did?
You have to be careful when you pick your parents.
Oh wait…
Reminds me of the method to grow up wealthy. First you need to pick rich grandparents.
If you are white, you are responsible for anything any white person ever did as long back as we have records.
I don’t think I be pleased to be blamed for something my father said nearly 40 years ago.
The team decided to go along with the Aboriginal player, so now they all have what they want.
Be careful what you wish for.
But the article quoted by Eric went on:
“The players’ questioning of Hancock Prospecting’s ideals relating to climate change further made them uncomfortable with the association.”
And the offensive quote was 58 years ago FFS. Some of these players’ parents weren’t even born then. It’s ancient history, and times have changed since then. The only ethno-religious-national group you’re allowed to slur in public now, have their capital in Jerusalem.
And white people. Especially men.
huh, say anything and the “J”police are out in full outrage, faster off the blocks than any runner
Push lies, and the people you are slandering get upset. What’s so unusual about that?
Gina Rinehart makes generous donations to Aboriginals. Read this article from an Indigenous newspaper speaking out in her defence.
https://www.nit.com.au/when-it-comes-to-roy-hill-and-gina-rinehart-actions-speak-louder-than-words/
Ms Rinehart is also a very generous donator to many charities, including supplying a large basket of useful items to every woman in hospital with breast cancer in the entire country. She does these things quietly, without fanfare, and I regard her as a living treasure.
Although a benefactor of first nations people, Gina is a conservative, and is a climate change denier. And she has an old dead white man as a father who said a bad thing 40 years ago. A perfect target for the leftist wokes. It IS about green issues.
he said it and WAS correct
The answer to the “aboriginal problem” and “closing the gap” is assimilation. Always has been and always will be. Aboriginal culture and aboriginal thinking does not produce first world living conditions. If they want a first world standard of living they have to be part of first world culture. While millions of dollars continue to be spent on aboriginal this and aboriginal that nothing will change.
My Nan was terribly racist and homophobic. Is that my fault? No. Does that mean I’m racist and homophobic? No.
The nutball team need to get over themselves.
Sounds like the founder of planned parenthood here in the US. And they are actually still doing it.
Morons. ’nuff said. Gina Rinehart is a winner and saved a bunch of money. Players might have to actually get jobs…real jobs.
What the heck is netball?
I had the same thought. Apparently a precursor or offshoot of basketball. Like Jerking compared to BBQ.
Yes. It was considered to be more ladylike than the men’s basketball…..how dare they
I used to like Jerking too, but then age caught up with me.
Not as engaging to watch as women’s beach volleyball that’s for sure.
S’funny that the men’s beach volleyball has so few watchers, isn’t it?
If their uniforms were more like women’s beach volleyball attire, it could catch on.
Not too far different , but it’s not played on a beach.
Oh I don’t know. The young ladies playing netball always seem to have their share of young male supporters.
I had to look it up. It’s… different.
It was designed for girls/women as a noncontact sport, and if you watch a video of it, there’s more contact in a chess match than in netball.
Hmmm… contact in sport…
A few years back one of my mates was telling me about some of activities of one of his sports of choice (basketball) and coming from a different sporting background (field lacrosse) I was a bit confused at some of the stuff he was describing.
“No”, he said. “Basketball *IS* a contact sport. The difference is you play a COLLISION sport”.
Oddly Netball is probably a more dangerous sport if pure number of injuries is considered. It is mildly nasty based on nearly every single account I have ever heard but the core problem is it is played on a hard surface and movement is basically leap-stop.
Knee injuries just from the constant need to stop suddenly are rampant.
Lacrosse by comparison is constant movement on grass. Yes you can get hit by the other players, but at least you are not twisting your legs unnaturally just moving up and down the field.
The stop part and zonal play were actually froma misunderstanding of the rules and helpful (or so he thought) notes given to the creator of Netball who just wanted to start a womens team. So I’ve read.
Just shows helpful notes and descriptions can lead you to totally the wrong conclusion.
You know more about netball than I’d ever admit to knowing. 😉
Same with Hockey… I used to revel in the ‘contact’, and I even had the ‘stick’.
It used to be called indoor basketball. Seven a side on a smaller version of a basketball court, Though it is supposed to be non-contact, it can be fairly physical. The main players are women from British Commonwealth (except Canada)
Hasn’t basketball been indoors for a long time?
Male basketball used to have the same rules, but the players were too stupid to get the ball into the net without a mechanical assist.
It’s a variation on ‘dance’
Laugh if you like, but it’ll cost you.
It’ll cost everyone.
It’ll cost the Earth.
G’day The Emperor’s New Mask,
“What the heck is netball?”
I left an answer up close to the top.
Sisters in Arms now desisters in Alms. Don’t mess with Gina Gretaheads or gesticulate globally and play locally with Green food miles..
Last I looked, CCP was sponsoring a lot of basketball, and athlete activism, in other allegedly English speaking countries. Was this an ill-considered pose or a deliberate move by the histrionically oppressed for change of ownership?
dk
pure gold!!
histrionically oppressed
I don’t know the details of the sponsorship obviously, but I assume the deal included support for all levels of netball in Australia.
So, some members of the self-serving, virtue signaling “elite” Australian team, the Diamonds, are triggered and all of the sport potentially suffers.
I can see the president of a grass roots netball association that was looking forward to new courts being built in their community allocated from the funding provided by Hancock Prospecting shaking their heads as that now won’t happen. Well played Diamonds.
All too true.
Sadly.
Maybe not. The money was for the elite levels.
Actual courts are usually provided by local, state and more recently by the Federal government as community facilities on land owned by the municipal government
she funded 2 other areas of the same sport at junior etc levels
also withdrawn now
Yes, currently my state’s netball players have also lost their financial support. The main Australian players group has a lot to answer for.
I believe the sponsorship was for the elite, to support the Diamonds staff and player wages/expenses only for four years, after all they are currently financially
broke. However the repercussions are going to be wide spread unless they can find another major sponsor.someone on DM suggested a name change to curbic zirconias
That would be appropriate, given (from what I read) one of their problems was with “mining”.
Another sad failure of an educational system that fails to educate kids just how their historically affluent standard of living was achieved. People who lived bare sustainance lifestyles didn’t have the resources to indulge in things like professional sports.
Yep… and most citizens of ‘developed’ countries have ABSOLUTELY no inkling of what “bare sustenance lifestyles” means.
(which results in these nutcakes marching, shouting, and bearing signs, demanding that Climate Change be ‘fixed’.
Nutballs.
Netball Australia has just pissed on their own chips . . .
And it appears that Cricket will be next.
And we have an Australian football team in one state that may also lose their sponsorship.
One of Australia’s main international competitors is Jamaica. Gina, I am sure Jamaica netball would appreciate any contribution you could make and not bite off your hand and not spit in your face!
The current players have been rail-roaded by activist former players.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-15/diamonds-greater-consultation-from-netball-australia-hancock/101540348?fbclid=IwAR3mWel52f12jN3qljF7xsyMYYEi6IwMxzd24gjzLOf24O8mN2ZYYdsUU54
The reaction in The Australian national newspaper has been the biggest avalanche of readers’ comments they have probably ever seen, 99% vociferously in favour of Gina Hancock.
Gina Reinhardt (born Hancock) inherited a small fortune based on iron ore leases and pastoral properties, she turned that into a huge fortune over time and has been extremely generous towards individuals and organisations with financial and other support.
I am fed up with the woke activist fools of today, and all people who play politics of envy games and what is called in Australia tall poppy syndrome to attempt to denigrate people who are wealthier than they are.
Sadly the younger Australians are the more naive they appear to be and too many seem to believe they are entitled to any generosity provided for their benefit including welfare from taxes,
Gina Rhinehart is a tough cookie.
I am not a fan.
Politely said, we will go away while you sort out your act.
Perfect response.
Netball is big in Australia.
But it is not yet financial.
Locally it does not need her input as all voluntarily anyway.
International and image wise the association and any players who want to be professional do.
I guess they will just have to be amateur and at home for the moment.
Still too busy laughing to write any more.
Remove all steel/aluminium netball poles and rings. The let them play.
Everyone should just let Netball thrive at a level where it is comfortable with itself instead of artificially trying to make it a big league sport.
what the heck is netball? never heard of it in USA.
Oh the irony Ms Wallam as it’s basically a British and colonies game for women-
History of Netball – World Netball
You’ll note-
Netball was first played in England in 1895 at Madame Ostenburg’s College.
and word has it that it was to be ‘ladylike’ and hence the early schoolgirl tunic uniform that later developed to a wrap around skirt and now the body suit and attached skirt you see today. Shorts are for boys naturally. LOL.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was a boycott for what her father said some 40 years ago.
“”Those that have been assimilated into, you know, earning good living or earning wages amongst the civilised areas, those that have been accepted into society and they have accepted society and can handle society, I’d leave them well alone,” he told a news broadcast.
“The ones that are no good to themselves and can’t accept things, the half-castes – and this is where most of the trouble comes – I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in future and that would solve the problem.”
I’m against eugenics ( except the children of alarmist scientist should were a symbol that denies them the right to use anything made or powered by fossil fuels as well as pass on the BS gene to the next generation) but if you want to be fair and balanced, boycott Planned Parenthood, Democrat Party (two Presidents were eugenicists) and Harvard for giving this a guy a Ph.D.
“The mass of ignorant N****s still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among N****s, even more than the increase among whites, is from that part of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.” William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Another own goal