Hancock Agriculture September 2018 3, Issue 3 Hancock Kidman Making us the best Cattle Company National Agriculture and Related Industries Day National Agriculture and Related Industries Day will be held again this year on Wednesday 21 November 2018. To all pastoral properties and employees you should start thinking of how we can all start celebrating this important day. Santa Gertrudis and Coolibah Composite bulls in forage oats on Rockybank Staon Inside this issue Naonal Agriculture and Related Industries Day ................1 Wed, 21 November 2018 Message from Your Chairman .....2 Sydney CBD Speech by Mrs Gina Rinehart Reserve your tables or seats AmCham 50th Anniversary Gala now for the annual gala dinner Dinner .........................................4 (Akubras and boots welcome!) [email protected] Message from Your CEO ..............10 Capex / Opex upgrades ...............11 General Manager Updates ..........12 Health and Wellbeing Mental Health Month..................14 Staon News ...............................15 Done Training Courses ................16 Future Important Dates Staff Achievements Hancock Agriculture 2019 recruitment ad ...........................17 Santa Gertrudis cale at S. Kidman & Co Pty Ltd Naryilco Staon, Qld Message from Your Chairman Dear team members I hope you are all doing well and I appreciate the wonderful efforts and commitment that you are making including through the drought – rain is, together with you all, the key to life on staons and farms too. We should see a moratorium on all government fees and charges for at least two years to allow people to recover on the land. Of course this is not the first me I have called for red tape and taxes to be reduced, for instance I refer to this in my speech to AmCham in the newsleer, and why this has been so successful in the USA, as making people more able to get on with business and get out of debt, is much beer than loans which push people further into debt, with interest and me consuming reporng obligaons. This year on the 21st of November we will celebrate for the second me, Naonal Agriculture and Related Industries Day, which I received permission from the Federal Government to start last year, – this year the Gala Dinner will be in Sydney CBD – we’ve chartered a boat to float SYDNEY Harbour, and Kidman and Hancock staff are helping to arrange donated aucon items, which can be bidded on whether aending the dinner or not, with proceeds for drought vicms. We are looking forward to the publicaon of the “Things we love“, stories and recipe book, I have been so pleased to read the stories that have been sent in telling why you want to be and love to be graziers or farmers on the land – the recipes look really great too. Staon Cooks as we all know, being so important to staon life. I’ve added a short Christmas secon too, from our Langsview Farm. Hope you’d like to try the stuffing, s rather good! And the tradional desserts, fantasc! Welcome to all of our new staff, I look forward to seeing some of you a bit later this year hopefully on my Christmas carols tour. If you have a Christmas carol, modified for staon life, please send me soon, so we can get this tour organised. All best, Your chairman. Gina Rinehart. 2 Message from your Chairman “Rain from Nowhere” Poem by Murray Hartin Reproduced here with the permission of Murray Harn; copyright owner. Muz’s Cds and book available at [email protected] His cale didn’t get a bid, they were fairly bloody poor, “But you have to think about What was he going to do? He couldn’t feed them anymore, Fiona and think about the kids. The dams were all but dry, hay was thirteen bucks a bale, “I’m worried about you son, you haven’t rung for quite a Last month’s talk of rain was just a fairytale, while, His credit had run out, no chance to pay what’s owed, “I know the road you’re on ‘cause I’ve walked every bloody Bad thoughts ran through his head as he drove down Gully mile. Road. “The date? December 7 back in 1983, “Geez, great grandad bought the place back in 1898, “Behind the shed I had the shotgun rested in the brigalow “Now I’m such a useless bastard, I’ll have to shut the tree. gate. “See, I’d borrowed way too much to buy the Johnson place “Can’t support my wife and kids, not like dad and “Then it didn’t rain for years and we got bombed by interest those before, rates, “Crikey, Grandma kept it going while Pop fought in “The bank was at the door, I didn’t think I had a choice, the war.” “I began to squeeze the trigger – that’s when I heard your With depression now his master, he abandoned what voice. was right, “You said ‘Where are you Daddy? It’s me to play our game’ There’s no place in life for failures, he’d end it all “’ I’ve got Squaer all set up, we might get General Rain.’ tonight. “It really was that close, you’re the one that stopped me There were sll some things to do, he’d have to shoot the son, cale first, “And you’re the one that taught me there’s no answer in a Of all the jobs he’d ever done, that would be the worst. gun. He’d have a shower, watch the news, then they’d all sit “Just remember people love you, good friends won’t let you down for tea down. Read his kids a bedme story, watch some more TV, “Look, you might have to swallow pride and take that job in Kiss his wife goodnight, say he was off to shoot some roos town, Then in a paddock far away he’d blow away the blues. “Just ’l things come good, son, you’ve always got a choice But he drove in the gate and stopped – as he always had “And when you get this leer ring me, ’cause I’d love to To check the roadside mailbox – and found a leer from his hear your voice.” Dad. Well he cried and laughed and shook his head then put the Now his dad was not a writer, Mum did all the cards and truck in gear, mail Shut his eyes and hugged his dad in a vision that was clear, But he knew the wring from the notebooks that he’d kept Dropped the cale at the yards, put the truck away from cale sales, Filled the troughs the best he could and fed his last ten He sensed the nature of its contents, felt moisture in his bales of hay. eyes, Then he strode towards the homestead, shoulders back and Just the fact his dad had wrien was enough to make him head held high, cry. He sll knew the road was tough but there was purpose in “Son, I know it’s bloody tough, it’s a cruel and twisted game, his eye. “This life upon the land when you’re screaming out for rain, He called his wife and children, who’d lived through all his “There’s no candle in the darkness, not a single speck of pain, light Hugs said more than words – he’d come back to them again, “But don’t let the demon get you, you have to do what’s They talked of silver linings, how good mes always follow right, bad, “I don’t know what’s in your head but push the bad Then he walked towards the phone, picked it up and rang thoughts well away his Dad. “See, you’ll always have your family at the back end of the And while the kids set up the Squaer, he hugged his wife day again, “You have to talk to someone, and yes I know I rarely did Then they heard the roll of thunder and they smelt the smell of rain. 3 Speech by Mrs Gina Rinehart, Executive Chairman of the Hancock Prospecting Group , Roy Hill and S. Kidman & Co American Chamber of Commerce in Australia’s (AmCham) 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner, Friday 25 May 2018, Adelaide Thank you April for such a lovely and warm introduction. Good evening Governor Hieu Van Le, Mrs Le, Premier Marshall, Acting US Ambassador James Carouso, our Kidman partner Mr Gui, Minister Canavan, Senator Bernardi, other Members of Parliament, distinguished guests and friends. It is an honour to be here with you tonight to mark AmCham’s 50th anniversary. I am also happy to be back in Adelaide – an area I always enjoy visiting. Can we please start with a very big round of applause for AmCham as they mark their 50-year milestone? This is a memorable weekend in Adelaide as tomorrow night is the sold out celebration of the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s 90th anniversary – a great organisation that does so much for our rural communities. And, can I also acknowledge new South Australian Premier Steven Marshall and Mr Gui who are both in the audience tonight. It is wonderful to welcome you both here. Mr Gui, our Kidman & Co business partner, is also the person who brought AFL football to China for the first time last year and just over a week ago, the second AFL match in China was played. Congratulations to Port Adelaide on your second win in China! As April mentioned, Hancock Prospecting first became a member of AmCham in 1994 and we are delighted to be part of your organisation.