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Mavericks on top of the Business People of the Year list
This year’s list reflects a world in which Australia’s biggest companies took a cautious approach to investing and deal-making in an uncertain economic environment.
The choice of Gina Rinehart as The Australian Financial Review’s 2023 Business Person of the Year duly recognises a lifetime of independent business success and achievement.
Her famous father, Lang Hancock, who pioneered the opening up of Western Australia’s Pilbara and Australia’s great iron ore export trade with Japan in the 1950s and 1960s, was named as one of the seven entrepreneurs and corporate leaders who most shaped modern Australian business over the previous seven decades when the Financial Review celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2022.
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