Angela Bennett
Supreme Court judge bows out of WA’s ‘clash of the dynasties’
Justice Jennifer Smith will take on a decades-long multibillion mining dispute between two of Western Australia’s wealthiest families, just as its much-anticipated trial may be derailed.
- Aja Styles
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$50,000 an hour of iron ore royalties for heirs with the Wright stuff
Record iron ore prices gifted the heirs of Lang Hancock’s business partner Peter Wright $436 million in royalties last financial year.
- Peter Milne
Billionaire dynasties in nation’s largest looming iron ore clash decided
Supreme Court of WA Justice Rene Le Miere on Friday delivered three significant judgments that will shape one of the biggest iron ore clashes the nation has seen.
- Aja Styles
Gina Rinehart makes final strike at being rid of her children from the Hope Downs ‘clash of the dynasties’
Gina Rinehart and her company plan to deliver ‘a knockout blow’ to her children in coming weeks, which will once and for all cement the players vying for Lang Hancock’s iron ore throne.
- Aja Styles
The Perth billionaire buying up a Mandurah canal-front street
One of WA's richest women has purchased her third property in Wannanup at the same island quay community at the Eastport canals.
- Peter de Kruijff
'Bleeding money': Meet the armies of lawyers pocketing millions from WA's clash of dynasties
It’s the multimillion-dollar litigation Pilbara mining pioneer Lang Hancock foresaw but proved powerless to prevent. And most of the money is flowing to Sydney.
- Aja Styles
Clash of the dynasties: Pilbara's role as kingmaker for nation's wealthy makes it a risk worth fighting over
The shifting ore sands brought on through the courts means Wright Prospecting could become a more active player in a region that has produced the nation's biggest mining heavyweights.
- Aja Styles
The billions of reasons these iron ore magnates aren't fussed by the wobbly economy
Wright Prospecting raked in hundreds of millions in iron ore royalties last financial year, reaping the benefits of pandemic
- Hamish Hastie
Clash of the dynasties: Legal showdown looms over Lang Hancock's multi-billion dollar iron ore tenement
It has been decades in the making, but now one of Western Australia’s most famous chapters in its mining history finally looks set to be tested, with billions of dollars in iron ore rights at stake.
- Aja Styles
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