Gina Rinehart on work, loyalty and 30 years in mining
Australia’s richest person has provided a rare insight into her initial struggles, motivations and ambitions after celebrating 30 years at the helm of what is now the country’s biggest private company.
It’s late January, and Tropical Cyclone Ellie has brought flooding to the Kimberley, damaging towns and closing essential transport routes.
Gina Rinehart – the country’s richest person with a $34 billion fortune, according to the Financial Review Rich List – is in Port Hedland with workers from her Roy Hill iron ore mine, about 180 kilometres south of Marble Bar, Australia’s hottest town.
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