Agriculture
8 June, 2023
Rinehart appointed rural charity patron
MAJOR Australian pastoralist and partner in the joint venture mining exploration across the Loddon, Gina Rinehart, has been named patron of national charity Rural Aid. Mrs Rinehart said the mining and agricultural industries were the backbone of our...
MAJOR Australian pastoralist and partner in the joint venture mining exploration across the Loddon, Gina Rinehart, has been named patron of national charity Rural Aid.
Mrs Rinehart said the mining and agricultural industries were the backbone of our country.
“They not only provide thousands and thousands of jobs, but they present billions of dollars of taxes for governments to build such things as hospitals, schools and roads and pay for our much needed police, security and defence forces,” she said.
“Preserving the agricultural and mining industry’s future is in the interests of not only all the businesses that the primary industries support, but every Australian. “It is critical that our governments realise these essential industries must keep cost competitive internationally, to be able to continue to earn export income, and thrive, and not burden them with regulations and other onerous government burdens,”
Rural Aid was founded in the 2015 drought,