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Townsville speech

Day two of the 2024 Bush Summit has featured addresses from Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and mining magnate Gina Rinehart, as attendees tune in to discussions over the key issues facing Australia’s regional communities.

Outback mayor Trevor Pickering has hit the nail on the head – it’s time for politicians in Canberra and Brisbane to pay more than just lip service to the regions.

Mrs Rinehart said the elimination of the direct costs of payroll tax, licence fees and stamp duties is what would “actually help the farmer and those in the bush”.

We are seeing massive rates of business failure at the moment, the highest on record for some time, and our agricultural and mining industries are struggling with ever-increasing government-imposed burdens of tape and tax.

Agriculture and mining magnate Gina Rinehart says Australia risks killing “the geese laying the golden egg” as farmers struggle under the burdens of government red tape and tax.

We need a mindset change, and we need this quickly.

The Australian mining industry provides average wages that are double the national average.

Join us to continue building an exceptional future for our great nation, and to set yourself up now and into the future.

As part of Roy Hill’s sponsorship of Lightscape at Kings Park, our community team had the incredible opportunity to collaborate with a group of talented Indigenous children from the Pilbara, to showcase their cultural heritage and identity.

Links to the 2024 TV Commercials for Hancock Prospecting/Hancock Agriculture and Roy Hill/Atlas Iron.

Hancock Prospecting chief executive Garry Korte and Rio Tinto iron ore boss Simon Trott were among seven signatories to a letter to Mr Albanese detailing “serious concerns” with the planned shakeup of environmental laws and the closed-door consultation process used to design it.