‘Misleading’: Gina Rinehart’s mining firm breached environmental code with ‘clean gas’ job ad, panel rules

Ad Standards Community Panel upholds complaint over Hancock Prospecting's promotion in the Weekend Australian

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The advertising regulator has found that Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting misled consumers with an unsubstantiated claim that gas was clean, in an online advertisement in The Australian last year.

Ads for Hancock Prospecting's recruitment webpage futureaustralianjobs.com ran in the digital edition of the Weekend Australian in October 2024.

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