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Bonuses worth tens of thousands of dollars are about to land in the bank accounts of workers at Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill iron ore mine, under one of the most generous resources industry profit-sharing schemes in the world.

Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, received the highly acclaimed ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the Mines and Money Resourcing Tomorrow Outstanding Achievement Awards on 5 December 2024.

West Australian Premier Roger Cook said a deal crunched between Tanya Plibersek and the Greens to establish an environment protection agency would have posed a risk to the state’s mining industry and nation’s prosperity.

Anthony Albanese has personally intervened to scuttle a deal with the Greens on a signature plank of his environmental platform after appeals from WA Premier Roger Cook, again overriding his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek just months out from the federal election.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is celebrating seven decades of operations, marking the day Lang and Hope Hancock founded the company.

Academic, legal and activist figures in the failed Environmental Defenders Office bid to scuttle a $5.8bn gas field near the Tiwi Islands concocted a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map based on guesswork and minimal consultation with Indigenous leaders, according to court documents.

Gina Rinehart has stepped up her calls for Australia to cut regulation and taxes while also borrowing from US president-elect Donald Trump with the pro-oil slogan ‘Drill Baby Drill’.

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has taken aim at bureaucrats while calling for Trump-style cuts to the public service, saying taking the axe to public spending would pay for tax cuts.
The billionaire mining magnate and Liberal party donor used her speech at a National Mining Day event hosted by Santos last week to outline her vision of a stripped-back Australian Public Service.

Senex Energy’s $1bn Atlas project, one Australia’s first large-scale gas developments to come online in years, will deliver its first supplies to the market within a week – as joint owner Gina Rinehart said the project’s delays were indicative of Labor’s attempt to kill Australia’s resource sector.