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Do big miners pay their fair share?

Described as “the gift that keeps on giving”, Australia’s mineral wealth has made mine owners into multibillionaires. But at a time when we pay to import our own gas, are the spoils being shared fairly?

  • Angus Holland

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Hancock Prospecting chairwoman Gina Rinehart.

The downside of power, privilege and philanthropy

Though Gina Rinehart’s philanthropy is negligible compared with her almost unfathomable wealth, she often deploys it effectively in her own interests.

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Gina Rinehart is locked in a court battle with the descendants of her father’s business over royalties from a mining tenement in Western Australia’s iron-rich Pilbara region.

Investors warned of royalty row risk in Rinehart-Rio deal, court told

Documents unearthed in a multibillion-dollar court fight reveal Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting and Rio Tinto warned a syndicate of bankers that other dynasties may chase royalties.

  • Jesinta Burton
Western Australia’s mining dynasty, of which the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart is the most famous member, is embroiled in a court fight over the rights to the Hope Downs projects in the state’s iron-rich Pilbara region.

‘They’ve made their bed’: Gina Rinehart’s lawyers slam kids’ legal attack

The mining magnate’s lawyers have levelled a scathing attack against her eldest children for claiming her absence from the high-stakes Hope Downs battle implied guilt.

  • Jesinta Burton
Western Australia’s mining dynasty, of which the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart is the most famous member, is embroiled in a court fight over the rights to the Hope Downs projects in the state’s iron-rich Pilbara region.

Final countdown: WA’s iron ore heirs have the final word in multibillion-dollar feud

After more than two dozen hearings spent poring over 60 years worth of history, the multibillion-dollar showdown between magnate Gina Rinehart, her children and two rival mining dynasties is drawing to a close.

  • Jesinta Burton
Don Rhoes, DFD Rhodes, Hancock Prospecting, Lang Hancock court main picture. Picture: Supplied

Top-secret files from Rinehart family row at heart of mid-trial dispute

Top-secret documents exchanged in the private stoush between mining magnate Gina Rinehart and her eldest children will be handed to rival dynasties fighting for a slice of a lucrative iron ore mine.

  • Jesinta Burton
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Bianca Rinehart arriving at WA’s Supreme Court on Thursday alongside lawyers Christopher Withers SC and Adam Hochroth.

Rinehart children faced ‘lies, bullying, and intimidation’ in trust fund battle, court told

It was 2003 when John Hancock first asked his mother Gina Rinehart why her father’s wish to leave his grandchildren control of a family trust once brimming with mining assets had not been executed.

  • Jesinta Burton
Gina Rinehart, right, her children John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart, top, and Rose Porteous with Lang Hancock.

Lang Hancock’s last-days epiphany laid bare in battle for billions

Faced with leaving a bankrupt estate, magnate Lang Hancock spent his final days trying to reverse moves to fund possessions for wife Rose Porteous, the court was told.

  • Jesinta Burton
Late mining pioneer Lang Hancock’s actions towards the end of his life, and his relationship with wife Rose Porteous, have become a focal point of a multibillion-dollar Supreme Court case.

Rose Porteous’ desire for luxury fuelled Rinehart’s feud with father, court hears

Details of the feud between pioneer Lang Hancock and his daughter Gina Rinehart before his death have been laid bare in a multibillion-dollar Supreme Court civil case.

  • Jesinta Burton
Gina Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting, started by her father Lang (far right), is defending claims to its Hope Downs iron ore tenement in the Pilbara from Wright Prospecting, started by Peter Wright (left).

Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting savages Lang’s ‘bombshell’ letter

Hancock Prospecting’s lawyer rubbished his opponents’ characterisation of Lang Hancock’s letter to his daughter, insisting it was of “peripheral relevance”.

  • Jesinta Burton

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