https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/17/gina-rinehart-portrait-nga-national-gallery-australia-olympic-swimmers-vincent-namatjira-kevin-hasemann
Swimming boss defends athletes lobbying national gallery to take down Gina Rinehart portraits
Swimming Queensland chief Kevin Hasemann says ‘I’ve never been to a gallery’ and furore has ‘evolved into something I could never have imagined’
Ben Doherty
Fri 17 May 2024 03.50 EDT
The head of Swimming Queensland has defended a campaign that saw Olympic champions lobby the National Gallery of Australia to take down portraits of their patron, Gina Rinehart, because they were deemed “offensive”.
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Rinehart’s company Hancock Prospecting is a major sponsor of Australian Olympic sports – funding sports bodies as well as individual athletes.
The sponsorship is often conditional, however. In 2022, Rinehart withdrew a $15m sponsorship of Netball Australia after the Indigenous netballer Donnell Wallam asked for her uniform not to carry the Hancock Prospecting logo.
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Hancock Prospecting has sponsored Australian swimmers to the tune of $40m.
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