Legend shreds Rinehart as netball fiasco turns ugly

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Australian hoops large Andrew Gaze has denounced billionaire Gina Rinehart staying quiescent astir her father's comments astir Indigenous Australians.

Rinehart's determination to propulsion $15 cardinal worthy of sponsorship dollars from Netball Australia has severely impacted the game's finances.

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Her determination was influenced by indigenous Diamonds subordinate Donnell Wallam, who said she was uncomfortable wearing a azygous with Rinehart's institution logo, Hancock Prospecting, aft her begetter Lang Hancock made violative comments astir indigenous Australians successful the 1984 documentary Couldn't beryllium Fairer, 8 years earlier his death

"Those that person been assimilated into earning bully surviving and earning wages among the civilised areas and person been accepted into nine and tin grip society, I'd permission them good alone," helium said astatine the time.

"The ones that are nary bully to themselves … I would dope the h2o up truthful that they were sterile and would breed themselves retired successful the future, and that would lick the problem."

But according to Gaze, the onus is connected Rinehart to region herself from her father's comments.

The erstwhile Boomers prima 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.

"I americium not blaming Gina Rinehart for her father's comments, but what I don't recognize is wherefore she won't precise publically disassociate herself from them.

"(She should say), 'I emotion my dad, but (that was wrong)'.

"If my dada had said that, oregon if my uncle, oregon anyone associated with me, oregon if my person said it, (I would say), 'I emotion this person, I'm inactive going to emotion him, but I'm going to amended him, I'm going to say, no, that is not the close mode to woody with that issue, it is really vile what you've said'."

"If you can't reconsider that, past I'm going to question our friendship, if you're going to support that view, past you're not a person of mine.

"Let's speech astir it, let's sermon it, let's fig it out, but if you can't travel to the decision that sterilising quality beings isn't really a bully thing, past you're nary person of mine."

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