Daniel Bryant

Her father, Lang Hancock, said on national television in 1984 that Indigenous Australians he described as “half-castes” should be rounded up and have their water “doped up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.” Donnell Wallam — only the third Indigenous woman ever to represent Australia in netball — privately requested that Rinehart publicly denounce those comments. Rinehart refused. Wallam was then denied an exemption from wearing the Hancock logo on her debut, and under unbearable pressure eventually agreed to wear it — at which point Rinehart pulled the $15 million sponsorship anyway, describing the players’ concerns as “virtue signalling.” This is who funds One Nation. This is the legacy behind the money.