Australia’s richest Gina Rinehart in call for tax cuts, less red tape

MINING magnate Gina Rinehart says Australia risks falling behind unless there is urgent action to cut tax and red tape.

GINA Rinehart wants Australians to get a tax cut, for businesses to have less red tape to kickstart industry and create jobs which aren’t just in the service industries.

Australia’s richest person has outlined her vision to get Australia working again.

Mrs Rinehart visited her Roy Hill mega mine this week to christen an additional five pink trucks, which were painted in the pastel shade, continuing her efforts to raise awareness of breast cancer.

In an exclusive interview Mrs Rinehart warned that Australia risked falling behind countries such as India unless there was urgent action to cut tax and red tape.

Gina Rinehart enjoys ore power with $21.5bn in riches

The proud owner of the legendary Kidman cattle empire

Mining magnate and Hancock chairman Gina Rinehart pictured at the Kidman Pastoral property.

“We are at the high end of taxation,” she said at her Roy Hill mine in outback Western Australia.

“It’s the two Ts, tax and tape. The huge almost unseen one is the huge cost of our bureaucracy and its red tape.

“Without investment we can’t maintain our living standards.”

Mrs Rinehart this month was back on top of the Forbes rich list with an estimated fortune of more than $21.5 billion.

She said she wanted Australia to continue to be an exporter, not just a country that provided service industries.

Gina Rinehart at Port Hedland.

Gina Rinehart has called for an end to red tape. Picture: Supplied

The success of her mining business has allowed Mrs Rinehart to further invest in Australian agriculture, including the famed Kidman cattle stations, making her one of the country’s largest land owners.

Mrs Rinehart said her support for breast cancer funding, which began in 1993, was close to her heart.

“There is a very real, urgent pressing need to do more for breast cancer research and to do more for breast cancer sufferers, this pink trucks launch is just a small part of that,” she said.

The Roy Hill project was more than 20 years in the making.

“This is a project that will deliver for decades, deliver jobs, deliver opportunities, deliver revenue,” she said.

Trucks at Roy Hill mine in Western Australia.

Mrs Rinehart said her support for breast cancer funding, which began in 1993, was close to her heart.

Mrs Rinehart said her family had been involved in cattle stations since the 1860s.

And while much of her time was spent managing her business, the sponsor of some of Australia’s elite swimmers said she loved going for a dip.

“I love to swim. When I was a child I lived on Hamersley station and the nearest water was four miles away, it was a water tank,” she said.

“I would ride my little bike out four miles and ride my little bike four miles back.”

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