October
- Exclusive
- Iron ore
Gina Rinehart slashes plans for next big mine as ESG factors hit
The billionaire businesswoman has dramatically scaled back the proposed Mulga Downs iron ore project by 40 per cent to overcome environmental concerns.
- Peter Ker
September
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Gina Rinehart continues her father’s tax crusade
After years railing against the burden of government regulations, the iron ore billionaire is winning support for another key policy passion – lower taxes for northern Australians.
- Tony Boyd
February
Gina Rinehart goes asking for thanks at Sky News Bali
Senior politicians have been struck with disclosure amnesia around the mining billionaire’s lavish parties. Lucky there’s video!
- Mark Di Stefano
- Investigation
- Mining
The country’s most secretive billionaires are about to get much richer
Angela Bennett never wanted the family business. The daughter of prospector Peter Wright almost sold it all. Now it’s about to become a bonanza.
- Primrose Riordan and Tom Rabe
December 2023
Lang Hancock behaved like his mining empire was ‘extension of himself’
Mining icon Lang Hancock thought he could do as he pleased with assets held by his company, but he breached his fiduciary duties, Gina Rinehart’s lawyers say.
- Tom Rabe
November 2023
Gina Rinehart gets a mid-air boot licking
Australia’s richest person lamented the lack of thanks government gives to the mining industry. One Coalition MP was happy to fix that.
- Mark Di Stefano
Rose, indiscretion and money: Why Rinehart and her father fell out
Decades old private correspondence between a mining icon and his daughter, Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart, sheds new light on their relationship breakdown.
- Tom Rabe
Gina Rinehart ‘castigated’ father over mining venture
The billionaire thought her father Lang Hancock’s scheme to sell iron ore to communist Romania was “foolhardy and reckless”, lawyers told a WA court.
- Tom Rabe
- Exclusive
- Mining
‘Here to defend my grandfather’: John Hancock makes shock WA court appearance
Lawyers for Mr Hancock and his sister, Bianca Rinehart, claimed that Hancock Prospecting’s stake in Hope Downs should belong to Lang Hancock’s grandchildren.
- Tom Rabe
How Rio Tinto changed Australia
The group’s pioneering role in the Pilbara helped transform the nation through engagement with Asia. A new book reveals the full story for the first time.
- Andrew Clark
Rinehart, MinRes tip into Delta Lithium $70m raise
Joint lead managers Bell Potter and Canaccord Genuity were rounding up investors on Monday morning.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Rio, Rinehart discussed risk of third-party claim to mine venture
Senior Rio Tinto executives and Gina Rinehart discussed in 2005 the risk that their iron ore joint venture may attract a claim from another Perth dynasty.
- Tom Rabe
- Exclusive
- Mining
Revealed: Deal protecting Rio if Rinehart loses heavyweight court bout
Rio Tinto’s foresight may ultimately limit its exposure to a multibillion-dollar legal battle between two of Australian richest women.
- Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
October 2023
Old diary entry casts doubt over lucrative claim to Hancock mining assets
An 18-year-old diary entry from a former Wright Prospecting executive has cast doubt over a billionaire family’s claim to ownership and lucrative royalties flowing from one of Gina Rinehart’s Pilbara mines.
- Tom Rabe
August 2023
Rinehart family dispute consumes high-stakes WA mining trial
The messy Rinehart family feud took centre stage at the WA Supreme Court this week.
- Tom Rabe
‘Leave me alone’: Lang Hancock’s 1989 plea to daughter Gina Rinehart
Pilbara legend Lang Hancock pleaded with his daughter, Gina Rinehart, to stop a barrage of criticism over his business and romantic dealings, asking her to “leave me alone to live the rest of my life in peace”.
- Tom Rabe
Farmers can’t afford net zero, says Rinehart
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, said governments should help the agriculture sector with the cost of electrifying all their farm equipment.
- Mark Ludlow
Rinehart defrauded her children in ‘calculated’ scheme, two of them claim
A Perth court heard two of Gina Rinehart’s children claim she defrauded them of rights to mining tenements established by her father. A kilometre away, the billionaire said in a speech it was sad the media focussed on rifts in the family.
- Updated
- Tom Rabe
Lang Hancock sold mining land to buy jewellery, jet for his wife
Pilbara icon Lang Hancock sold off valuable mining tenements and stripped his own company of cash to buy his wife Rose Porteous luxury cars, jewellery and a private jet, lawyers claim.
- Updated
- Tom Rabe
Hancock moved assets ‘to fulfil Porteous’ desires’: Rinehart lawyer
A court has heard claims that mining icon Lang Hancock breached his fiduciary duties under pressure from his wife, Rose Porteous.
- Tom Rabe