Victorian Premier Dan Andrews rushes to help child who COLLAPSED at Netball Australia announcement

A press convention to announce a brand new $15million sponsor for Netball Australia has taken a dramatic flip, with Victorian Premier Dan Andrews dashing to assistance from a child who appeared to have collapsed.

Andrews was saying that the Victorian authorities had stepped in to sponsor the organisation, after mining magnate Gina Rinehart withdrew $15million value of funding over the game’s racism scandal.

Under-siege Netball Australia CEO Kelly Ryan was speaking about what the funding would imply for the game and its junior pathways earlier than a loud thud was heard behind her.

A junior participant appeared to have fainted, and each Andrews and Ryan rushed to the younger lady’s aide because the press convention was introduced to an abrupt halt. 

A girl might then be seen hugging and comforting the younger lady, who appeared to be traumatised. 

The drama comes after Rineheart’s firm Hancock Prospecting withdrew its $15million sponsorship after Australian Diamonds gamers led a revolt.

Indigenous participant Donnell Wallam refused to put on the aspect’s uniform bearing the emblem of Rinehart’s mining firm, and teammates rallied round her. 

Donnell Wallam celebrates after scoring the match-winning objective for Australia on October 26 within the wake of the $15million racism scandal

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews (third from left) is seen with junior netballers on Monday simply earlier than saying his authorities’s sponsorship lifeline for Netball Australia

Wallam and the gamers expressed their issues over Rineheart’s father, Lang Hancock, and his observe report of racism towards Indigenous Australians. 

Hancock had recommended in 1984 that First Nations Australians needs to be sterilised so they might ‘breed out’. 

Rinehart, who is value an estimated $30billion, shredded the $15million sponsorship after the furore escalated and he or she was urged to apologise for her father’s feedback some 40 years prior.

Netball Australia, already $8million in debt, confronted an enormous funding black gap till Andrews and his authorities stepped in.

Dan Andrews and his Victorian authorities have stepped in to fill the funding hole for Netball Australia after mining magnate Gina Rinehart pulled $15million in funding

The state’s tourism physique, Visit Victoria, will step in to breach the hole with a deal that runs till June 2027.

The Super Netball last shall be performed in Victoria, whereas the Diamonds may also put on Visit Victoria branding on their workforce package, and play 5 take a look at matches and coaching camps within the state between 2023 and 2026.  

‘Obviously there was a sponsor. That sponsor was no extra so there was a niche and Visit Victoria raced to fill it. Other states needed this however Victoria secured it,’ Andrews informed reporters.

Australian Diamonds gamers (left to proper) Jo Weston, Amy Parmenter, Jamie-Lee Price and Kira Austin sing the nationwide anthem alongside junior gamers forward of the aspect’s Test towards England on Sunday

Ryan seemed a relieved girl as she thanked Rinehart for her enormous contribution to the game, and welcomed Netball Australia’s new relationship for the Victorian authorities.

‘She (Rinehart) was an unbelievable backer of our sport so we have definitely saved involved and made certain that we have ended the partnership as finest we will,’ she mentioned at the press convention.

‘This is a special partnership now and one which we glance ahead to delivering over the subsequent 4 and a half years.’

The Diamonds beat England 56-48 on Sunday night time as they continued their return to type, and can face the arch-enemy towards this Thursday in Brisbane.