Gina Rinehart
WA quietly shuts door on more exports of onshore gas
The WA government has quietly announced that no onshore gas fields will receive the economic advantage of access to international markets that the Waitsia field owned by Japan’s Mitsui and Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy gained in 2020.
- by Peter Milne
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Gina Rinehart inked ‘death warrant’ deals for children’s trust fund, court told
Gina Rinehart inked “death warrant” deals for the lucrative trust fund left to her four children, stripping it of its mining assets, wrestling back its stake in her company and leaving it “frozen in time”.
- by Jesinta Burton
Opinion
Agriculture
‘Cut tape and tax’: Gina Rinehart reveals eccentric wishlist
Australia’s richest person has railed against taxes, bureaucrats and “bird-killing” clean energy in her checklist of measures to help regional Australia.
- by Peter Milne
How (most) pollies got swept away by Matilda mania
The exhilarating, white-knuckle three-hour epic World Cup soccer match was among Australia’s most-watched sporting events since Cathy Freeman’s Olympic run more than two decades ago.
- by David Estcourt and Kishor Napier-Raman
Lang Hancock’s last-days epiphany laid bare in battle for billions
Faced with leaving a bankrupt estate, magnate Lang Hancock spent his final days trying to reverse moves to fund possessions for wife Rose Porteous, the court was told.
- by Jesinta Burton
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Courts
Rose Porteous’ desire for luxury fuelled Rinehart’s feud with father, court hears
Details of the feud between pioneer Lang Hancock and his daughter Gina Rinehart before his death have been laid bare in a multibillion-dollar Supreme Court civil case.
- by Jesinta Burton
Memo shows Wrights knew they had no right over Hope Downs, court told
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has attempted to deliver a fatal blow in the battle to guard its iron ore riches, unearthing a 34-year-old memo showing a rival mining dynasty knew it had no right to its royalties.
- by Jesinta Burton
Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting savages Lang’s ‘bombshell’ letter
Hancock Prospecting’s lawyer rubbished his opponents’ characterisation of Lang Hancock’s letter to his daughter, insisting it was of “peripheral relevance”.
- by Jesinta Burton
Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting bites back in bid to safeguard iron ore empire
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has fought to shield its iron ore empire from the multimillion-dollar royalty claim lobbed by her father’s associate amid a high-stakes civil case in the Supreme Court.
- by Jesinta Burton
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Mining
Will Rio Tinto be dragged into the $1.22 billion Hancock case?
Descendants of the business partners of Gina Rinehart’s father want to claw back billions of dollars in iron ore royalties from her company Hancock Prospecting.
- by Simon Johanson and Jesinta Burton
‘Idiot John’: Emails lay bare early days of Rinehart children’s failed coup
The WA Supreme Court was read a string of emails exchanged as Gina Rinehart’s son John Hancock attempted to rally the support of his siblings to remove their mother as head of a family trust.
- by Jesinta Burton