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Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart issues alert over social media investment scam using her image

Gina Rinehart has issued an alert over an investment scam bearing her image that’s doing the rounds on social media, the second time she’s had to do so this year. Australia’s wealthiest person posted a brief statement on her private company’s website about the scam, showing a doctored image of her seemingly on the Today morning TV show, with the strap emblazoned “Loophole to Riches: Gina Rinehart about her income”.

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Bush Summit can bring policy energy | Gina Rinehart AO | The West Australian

News Corp’s Bush Summit presents a welcome and much-needed opportunity to bring about focus on all the good things, the challenges and the opportunities that encompass regional Australia. With my family’s pioneering and agricultural background in regional and remote Australia going back to the mid-1800s in the Pilbara and back even before that, and more recently in mining, I’ve had the opportunity to share a very special history and many experiences in the Australian outback. It’s time to call for better policies for those who work and live in our bush. No longer do we want pollies to visit and say they love and appreciate us, but then deliver legislation that promises more hardships for us.

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Bush Summit: The changing face of the Kimberley’s cattle industry

The red dirt and cattle country of the Kimberley has long been defined by its hard men and cowboys, yet it is women who are shaping the region’s future.For the past several years, the Fords have been living at Fossil Downs station, just east of Fitzroy Crossing, where their father, Rick Ford, is the station manager. Fossil Downs, owned by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Agriculture since 2015, is one of Western Australia’s most historic stations. Its success – and the women who have made Fossil Downs such a powerhouse in the Kimberley – will be among the topics at WA’s first Bush Summit next Monday, hosted by The Australian and Hancock Prospecting.

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Claims to Rinehart mining billions ‘absurd’

“(Wright Prospecting) have not paid a proverbial red cent to contribute towards the vast sums necessary for the exploration, maintenance and development of those licences,” Mr Hutley said. “My client has taken extraordinary commercial risks, and with extraordinary commercial acumen has turned (Hope Downs) into a valuable investment.

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Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting savages Lang’s ‘bombshell’ letter

Lawyers for Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting have savaged the 37-year-old bombshell letter a fellow mining dynasty hailed as proof the magnate knew she had to share her iron ore billions, branding it “peripheral” evidence made redundant by a subsequent deal. But Hancock Prospecting’s lawyer Noel Hutley rubbished the characterisation, insisting it was, at best, of the most “peripheral relevance”. “If anything, it supports our case to the extent it is even relevant and we embrace it,” he told the court.

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