Sportswashing
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@dogmeat said in Sportswashing:
@NTA said in Sportswashing:
If I win Powerball's $160M Thursday night I can flick them a lazy $15M and get "NTA Rules" on the uniforms, right?
Not if they read back over your posts on the Fern.....
Fair.
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@Windows97 said in Sportswashing:
@NTA said in Sportswashing:
Back to the topic at hand: is $15M that big a deal? It is the kind of money Rinehart wouldn't bother to pick up if she dropped it in the street, figuratively speaking.
I don't think any of this is about the money.
Probably not, at this point.
Lang Hancock was largely a product of his generation, and spouted what were widely held beliefs. My daughter is utterly shocked at my mother's attitude toward "the darkies" with a mere 60 years between them.
If his daughter wanted to distance herself from the comments - and not the man himself - that would have been oh-so-easy, but she took her money and walked. So be it.
The thing about mining companies, as @Hooroo points out, is that we're not about to give up mining. The pivot from gas/coal to precious metals would be an undertaking but Hancock Prospecting is across a range of mining so won't find it as onerous as some.
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@NTA said in Sportswashing:
Back to the topic at hand: is $15M that big a deal? It is the kind of money Rinehart wouldn't bother to pick up if she dropped it in the street, figuratively speaking.
She doesn’t think like that and that it is probably why she knows how to make a quid or two….
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@ACT-Crusader said in Sportswashing:
@NTA said in Sportswashing:
Back to the topic at hand: is $15M that big a deal? It is the kind of money Rinehart wouldn't bother to pick up if she dropped it in the street, figuratively speaking.
She doesn’t think like that and that it is probably why she knows how to make a quid or two….
Sure. By the same measure, you could also say she was hardly in it for the sense of satisfaction from helping others.
Let's face it: most parents involved in netball aren't about to run off and buy Hancock shares on the back of her sponsorship. Or change their stance on fossil fuels.
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So the taxpayers of the state of Victoria have come to the rescue of Netball Australia.
$15m stumped up.
Admittedly Vic gets guaranteed Super Netball final plus guaranteed Test matches, and some visibility, but I can't see the return in overall $$ matching the outlay.
Strikes me as a political move by the current state government.
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Starship Hospital tells Netball Australia to hold their orange juice
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@voodoo said in Sportswashing:
Starship Hospital tells Netball Australia to hold their orange juice
What???!!!!!
What the fuck????
This cannot be real
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@mariner4life said in Sportswashing:
@voodoo said in Sportswashing:
Starship Hospital tells Netball Australia to hold their orange juice
What???!!!!!
What the fuck????
This cannot be real
Yep, it’s true
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so it appears there was more to this story.
1 Starship were only given 3-4 hours to accept or decline the donation. They have a due diligence process they have to follow and it was not possible to do this in that short a time frame.
2 They have said they have plenty of donations from the gambling industry and should not have said otherwise and have adjusted their statement to reflect this....
3 The doner admits he might have gone off half-cocked.
1 I understand 2 I don't - sounds like someone woke in the media team has been brought back into line following a backlash 3 yeah well you would, wouldn't you. Offer half a mill and be told fuck off with your feelthy money.
I wonder why the timeframe was so short and whether the end result of the money going to the organiser's niminee was the desired outcome
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@Catogrande said in Sportswashing:
Upvote for use of the word feeelthy.
But then counter-acted by "doner".
Unless the guy is Turkish, and this was some sweet subtle casual racism. In which case - upvote. -
@booboo said in Sportswashing:
So the taxpayers of the state of Victoria have come to the rescue of Netball Australia.
$15m stumped up.
Admittedly Vic gets guaranteed Super Netball final plus guaranteed Test matches, and some visibility, but I can't see the return in overall $$ matching the outlay.
That's the risk with any sporting sponsorship of course - and many don't sponsor for a return, or at least only one that marketing people believe in.
When you look at how much money state governments plow into incentives and tax breaks for all sorts of things, I'm not sure that $15M is more than a couple of bucks down the back of the couch.
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@Tim said in Sportswashing:
American universities are fucking disgusting, especially the bigger sports schools. just brothels by another name.