Icon's chilling Rinehart warning for struggling sports

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Swimming fable Dawn Fraser believes Netball Australia has gone "really wrong" with its handling of the sponsorship fiasco surrounding the sport.

Speaking connected Radio 4BC, Fraser said she was acrophobic Gina Rinehart would propulsion her sponsorship of different sports having withdrawn her $15 cardinal woody with NA and the nationalist squad the Diamonds

"(Rinehart) is helping radical successful athletics to execute to their champion ability, and ... Netball Australia has truly gone incorrect connected this attitude," she said.

"I conscionable deliberation it's truthful atrocious for the sport. It's atrocious for to those girls that person said nary to (the sponsorship) due to the fact that ... she mightiness halt the sponsorship with different sports and I deliberation our athletics successful this state would spell down and I'd hatred to spot that happen."

Fraser said Rinehart - who besides sponsors the Australian swimming and rowing teams - was a "good-hearted person" and a "hard businesswoman".

She besides said Rinehart was a changeless fig astir the aquatics team, and claimed the mining magnate wasn't successful it for the publicity.

"Mrs G has done a hellhole of a batch for not lone swimming, but she's looked aft formation volleyball. She's looked aft women's rowing, and women's synchronised swimming," Fraser said.

"Heavens above, what are these girls doing? I mean, she's associated with immoderate of the champion sports and immoderate of the, you know, (non-mainstream) sports."

On Tuesday afternoon, basketball fable Andrew Gaze denounced Rinehart staying quiet astir her begetter Lang Hancock's suggestions successful 1984 that indigenous radical beryllium sterilised to "breed them out".

The full sponsorship fiasco began erstwhile uncapped Diamonds subordinate Donnell Wallam reportedly refused to deterioration a Diamonds dress displaying the Hancock logo successful her expected debut against England this week.

Gaze said Rinehart could person easy smoothed things over.

"She (Gina Rinehart) could person apologised for her father's comments, distanced herself from them and told america that she doesn't judge those things. Instead, she pulled her wealth out," helium said connected SEN.

Fraser suggested Rinehart shouldn't person to apologise for her father's words.

"No, she's not her father. I mean, I'd hatred to beryllium successful this presumption and being fought implicit the information that my begetter did immoderate things wrong," Fraser said.

"She's been brought up with a hard concern family, and she wouldn't beryllium the idiosyncratic she is contiguous if she hadn't ... done by the rules (her) begetter acceptable out."

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