It statred with the Diamonds Netballers pushing back at Gina Rhienharts sponsorship of Netball Australia for woke agenda.
Now we have Pat Cummins come out and appling pressure to Cricket Australia over Alinta Energy's sponsorship because of climate change.
The answer is simple just like the Manly players who objected to the woke rainbow pride jumper they said no, stood down from playing, its simple if you dont like the sponsor dont play.
Oh by the way NA is in debt to the tune of 7 million dollars, what happens if Gina pulls her sponsorship.... you precious people going to run around and run chook raffles to keep your elite sport status, or do you expect the government to bail NA out.
DMaxer said
11:48 AM Oct 18, 2022
I think they have displayed a lot of character and principle, especially the women, in what they have done. They would have been fully aware of the financial repercussions if they refused the sponsorship yet still went ahead. The cricketers are raking it in and would have sponsors lined up in any event.
I think there will be a rush to sponsor the Diamonds as they now have this reputation for being prudent as to where the money comes from.
Perhaps Barnaby could get a team together and she could sponsor that one.
Mike Harding said
12:56 PM Oct 18, 2022
I assume they will also disassociate themselves from all things mining at a personal level too... I think they will discover such a choice would have a massive impact upon their lives... how would they get to matches?
Virtue signalling - there's a lot of it about.
DMaxer said
02:07 PM Oct 18, 2022
I dont think they would go that far nor should they. It might only be a token effort but they have made their statement. Good on them.
dorian said
02:36 PM Oct 18, 2022
Woke, woke, woke, woke. Why is every protest seen and written off as a "woke" statement?
Ms Rinehart's $15 million lifeline over the next four years -- to a sport that is in around $7 million debt -- is in a holding pattern as the Diamonds team support First Nations squad member Donnell Wallam who expressed an objection to wearing a uniform with the Han**** logo on it.
It is not hard to understand why she found it objectionable.
Wallam's parents would have been young adults in 1984 when Lang Han****, founder of Han**** Prospecting and father of Gina, suggested a plan that would kill off troublesome Indigenous people.
"Those that have been assimilated into society and are earning a good living, and earning wages amongst the civilised areas, that have been accepted into society and accept society and can handle society, I'd leave them well alone," Lang Han**** said.
"The ones who 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."
Greg 1 said
02:43 PM Oct 18, 2022
What a pathetic lot.
They will all go back to their homes driving their cars and enjoying the trillion other items that mining gives them in life.
They will go off and hail how good it is to have the great big wind farm on the hill and those solar panels on the roof and they have just put the order in for that EV ignoring the fact that without mining and people like Gina Reinhardt 's father, they wouldn't be enjoying any of that.
This country's prosperity revolves around mining whether we like that fact or not.
We now have a generation of people who I honestly think are unaware of where their food and other goods comes from short of the shop.
Huge bunch of total hypocrites in my book. If they are serious about that principle they need to go and live in a cave.
If billionaires like Gina want to put some of the money they have made from mining back into the community via sponsorships, good on them I say, and these woke virtue signallers need to keep their traps shut or go live like a Neanderthal.
DMaxer said
03:48 PM Oct 18, 2022
I don't think it is because it is coming from mining Greg, I think, as Dorian has rightly said, it is because it came from that particular person.
Perhaps we could ask her children to give their opinion. I understand they are a very close knit family, or am I mistaken.
Gundog said
04:20 PM Oct 18, 2022
DMaxer wrote:
I don't think it is because it is coming from mining Greg, I think, as Dorian has rightly said, it is because it came from that particular person.
Perhaps we could ask her children to give their opinion. I understand they are a very close knit family, or am I mistaken.
Gina dose more for the traditional owners than her father, these precious individuals are basing their case on what Lang did and said that was 40 years ago. You cannot alter the past you can only learn from it.
Gina has a bit of pocket change that she spreads around, ask the swimmers, rowers and other sports that prosper because of her support.
I have a feeling that a couple of members of the team have brow beaten other team members to support their misimformed position.
Actually Netball Australia needs to harden up and tell the players if you dont want to wear the uniform then you can choose not to play, there will be plenty of others who would be proud to play in whatever uniform which has the sponsors logo on it.
I'm sorry be these players are spoilt brats, have an option if you dont like the sponsor then dont play, just like the Manly 7, an AFLW player chose not to play last weekend because of the Pride jumper and everyone supported her decision.
These elite netballers shoul be looking for a real job then and give up their 150,000-180,000 salary
DMaxer said
04:24 PM Oct 18, 2022
Yes, she is very generous. Why, she even gave Barnaby $40,000 and he doesn't play any sport that I am aware of.
Greg 1 said
05:17 PM Oct 18, 2022
So we are now trying to invest the sins of the father on the daughter are we.
Still utterly pathetic.
I am sure that if we looked hard enough, everyone's family would have the odd skeleton in the closet somewhere, regardless of their skin colour. I know of a couple of rogues in my ancestral past.
It is this constant rearward navel gazing that is dividing the country. Accept that there were wrongs done in the past for various reasons, learn from it and move on.
Rob Driver said
06:06 PM Oct 18, 2022
A big plus 1 to both your posts Greg. +1 +1
dabbler said
07:44 PM Oct 18, 2022
Move on ? That's a lesson most here should take to heart. Times have changed but somehow too many here can't and won't accept it. This entire thread wouldn't exist if people moved on. Surprisingly, in the real world, people can object to things they don't like in public and not just pontificate somewhat anonymously on a minor forum on the internet.
Rob Driver said
07:57 PM Oct 18, 2022
Isnt this just so annoying.
People just refuse to move on maybe because we are sick of hearing that we should do so. Is that the moving on we do so that all those with radical and unrealistic views can all sit and sip their lattes and tell each other how correct they are because no one disagrees.
Dabbler, you said this,
Surprisingly, in the real world, people can object to things they don't like in public and not just pontificate somewhat anonymously on a minor forum on the internet.
I thought this forum is public so can you elaborate on what your idea of the real world is.
Craig1 said
08:54 PM Oct 18, 2022
well said Greg
dabbler said
09:46 PM Oct 18, 2022
Yes the forum is public. No it doesn't represent the real world. Pretty simple really.
gold dandelion said
11:36 PM Oct 18, 2022
we will see how consistent they all are at the next Commonwealth games.
dorian said
05:46 AM Oct 19, 2022
A young woman refuses to wear the logo of a man who advocated the extinction of her race and the response is, get over it, girl? Does anyone not see what is wrong here?
rgren2 said
07:38 AM Oct 19, 2022
Ahh, no. You are not guilty of the sins of your father.
peter67 said
09:44 AM Oct 19, 2022
Well said Greg.
Rob Driver said
09:46 AM Oct 19, 2022
dabbler wrote:
Yes the forum is public. No it doesn't represent the real world. Pretty simple really.
Hi Dabbler,
Is this just because you said so.
My observation is that this forum as many others actually IS a crosscut of the real world or at the very least the real Australia.
Because some dont want to hear what is being said doesnt make it any different.
Mike Harding said
12:25 PM Oct 19, 2022
I agree with Rob; I think it's fairly representative of the real world as experienced by the demographic who post to it.
Gundog said
12:35 PM Oct 19, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
I agree with Rob; I think it's fairly representative of the real world as experienced by the demographic who post to it.
I belong to a special demographic "Grumpy Old Fart"
dorian said
12:37 PM Oct 19, 2022
The real world isn't moderated.
Rob Driver said
01:02 PM Oct 19, 2022
dorian wrote:
The real world isn't moderated.
But not for the want of trying, generally by the woke.
Gundog said
06:11 PM Oct 19, 2022
Now we have morons in WA want the Fremantle Dockers to drop their sponsor Woodside.
Mike Harding said
06:53 PM Oct 19, 2022
Gundog wrote:
Now we have morons in WA want the Fremantle Dockers to drop their sponsor Woodside.
I hope Woodside withdraw.
Yet again I wonder how far these people will follow their new found conscience and if they are true to it how will they attend matches? By bicycle perhaps?
Virtue signalling - there's a lot of it about.
Rob Driver said
07:50 PM Oct 19, 2022
Maybe Freo will just go back to the WAFL until they all grow wings.
The words, selfish and idiotic come to mind.
I bet they dont mind turning the air con on when they get home at night. And that will be Cold or Hot
Ivan 01 said
08:01 PM Oct 19, 2022
They dont seem to object with using sponsors like Sportsbet etc.
What a joke.
Gundog said
09:50 PM Oct 19, 2022
The woke have turned against SANTOS who will nolonger sponsor the Darwin Festival.
Ivan 01 said
08:17 AM Oct 20, 2022
I dont think these woke wankers actually realise how much money does go back into the community.
As was said above those in support of this nonsense should be made to change their lifestyle to accurately represent their views.
It statred with the Diamonds Netballers pushing back at Gina Rhienharts sponsorship of Netball Australia for woke agenda.
Now we have Pat Cummins come out and appling pressure to Cricket Australia over Alinta Energy's sponsorship because of climate change.
The answer is simple just like the Manly players who objected to the woke rainbow pride jumper they said no, stood down from playing, its simple if you dont like the sponsor dont play.
Oh by the way NA is in debt to the tune of 7 million dollars, what happens if Gina pulls her sponsorship.... you precious people going to run around and run chook raffles to keep your elite sport status, or do you expect the government to bail NA out.
I think they have displayed a lot of character and principle, especially the women, in what they have done. They would have been fully aware of the financial repercussions if they refused the sponsorship yet still went ahead. The cricketers are raking it in and would have sponsors lined up in any event.
I think there will be a rush to sponsor the Diamonds as they now have this reputation for being prudent as to where the money comes from.
Perhaps Barnaby could get a team together and she could sponsor that one.
I assume they will also disassociate themselves from all things mining at a personal level too... I think they will discover such a choice would have a massive impact upon their lives... how would they get to matches?
Virtue signalling - there's a lot of it about.
Woke, woke, woke, woke. Why is every protest seen and written off as a "woke" statement?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-18/pressure-building-for-diamonds-netball-australia-gina-rinehart/101545110
Ms Rinehart's $15 million lifeline over the next four years -- to a sport that is in around $7 million debt -- is in a holding pattern as the Diamonds team support First Nations squad member Donnell Wallam who expressed an objection to wearing a uniform with the Han**** logo on it.
It is not hard to understand why she found it objectionable.
Wallam's parents would have been young adults in 1984 when Lang Han****, founder of Han**** Prospecting and father of Gina, suggested a plan that would kill off troublesome Indigenous people.
"Those that have been assimilated into society and are earning a good living, and earning wages amongst the civilised areas, that have been accepted into society and accept society and can handle society, I'd leave them well alone," Lang Han**** said.
"The ones who 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."
They will all go back to their homes driving their cars and enjoying the trillion other items that mining gives them in life.
They will go off and hail how good it is to have the great big wind farm on the hill and those solar panels on the roof and they have just put the order in for that EV ignoring the fact that without mining and people like Gina Reinhardt 's father, they wouldn't be enjoying any of that.
This country's prosperity revolves around mining whether we like that fact or not.
We now have a generation of people who I honestly think are unaware of where their food and other goods comes from short of the shop.
Huge bunch of total hypocrites in my book. If they are serious about that principle they need to go and live in a cave.
If billionaires like Gina want to put some of the money they have made from mining back into the community via sponsorships, good on them I say, and these woke virtue signallers need to keep their traps shut or go live like a Neanderthal.
I don't think it is because it is coming from mining Greg, I think, as Dorian has rightly said, it is because it came from that particular person.
Perhaps we could ask her children to give their opinion. I understand they are a very close knit family, or am I mistaken.
Gina dose more for the traditional owners than her father, these precious individuals are basing their case on what Lang did and said that was 40 years ago. You cannot alter the past you can only learn from it.
Gina has a bit of pocket change that she spreads around, ask the swimmers, rowers and other sports that prosper because of her support.
I have a feeling that a couple of members of the team have brow beaten other team members to support their misimformed position.
Actually Netball Australia needs to harden up and tell the players if you dont want to wear the uniform then you can choose not to play, there will be plenty of others who would be proud to play in whatever uniform which has the sponsors logo on it.
I'm sorry be these players are spoilt brats, have an option if you dont like the sponsor then dont play, just like the Manly 7, an AFLW player chose not to play last weekend because of the Pride jumper and everyone supported her decision.
These elite netballers shoul be looking for a real job then and give up their 150,000-180,000 salary
Yes, she is very generous. Why, she even gave Barnaby $40,000 and he doesn't play any sport that I am aware of.
Still utterly pathetic.
I am sure that if we looked hard enough, everyone's family would have the odd skeleton in the closet somewhere, regardless of their skin colour. I know of a couple of rogues in my ancestral past.
It is this constant rearward navel gazing that is dividing the country. Accept that there were wrongs done in the past for various reasons, learn from it and move on.
Isnt this just so annoying.
People just refuse to move on maybe because we are sick of hearing that we should do so.
Is that the moving on we do so that all those with radical and unrealistic views can all sit and sip their lattes and tell each other how correct they are because no one disagrees.
Dabbler, you said this,
Surprisingly, in the real world, people can object to things they don't like in public and not just pontificate somewhat anonymously on a minor forum on the internet.
I thought this forum is public so can you elaborate on what your idea of the real world is.
Hi Dabbler,
Is this just because you said so.
My observation is that this forum as many others actually IS a crosscut of the real world or at the very least the real Australia.
Because some dont want to hear what is being said doesnt make it any different.
I agree with Rob; I think it's fairly representative of the real world as experienced by the demographic who post to it.
I belong to a special demographic "Grumpy Old Fart"
But not for the want of trying, generally by the woke.
Now we have morons in WA want the Fremantle Dockers to drop their sponsor Woodside.
I hope Woodside withdraw.
Yet again I wonder how far these people will follow their new found conscience and if they are true to it how will they attend matches? By bicycle perhaps?
Virtue signalling - there's a lot of it about.
The words, selfish and idiotic come to mind.
I bet they dont mind turning the air con on when they get home at night. And that will be Cold or Hot
What a joke.
The woke have turned against SANTOS who will nolonger sponsor the Darwin Festival.
As was said above those in support of this nonsense should be made to change their lifestyle to accurately represent their views.
They cant have two bob each way.