Gina Rinehart lobbied for controversial plan to move 2032 Olympic rowing to crocodile-inhabited river

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Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, lobbied for controversial plans to host 2032 Olympic rowing events on the Fitzroy River at Rockhampton, documents released by the Queensland government show. The plans to send rowers 600km north of host city Brisbane – to a river that is natural habitat for saltwater crocodiles, and which prompted significant backlash among the rowing and broader Olympic communities – were announced by the Queensland government in March last year. The newly elected Queensland government conducted a venues review that was finalised in early 2025. It used the review process to justify breaking election promises not to build a new stadium. But the decision to send rowing…

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