Gina Rinehart
Hanson billed taxpayers $9000 for charter flight to opening of Rinehart-funded building
The Queensland senator defended her attendance at the Victorian event celebrating the contribution from Australia’s richest person.
- Brittany Busch
Latest
- Exclusive
- Courts
Case dismissed: Fence dispute between a disability pensioner and Gina Rinehart moves behind doors
Kathy Pope’s legal stoush with Australia’s richest person has taken a turn after a lawyer came forward to offer his services pro bono.
- Lucy Macken
- Exclusive
- Commonwealth Games
Seven was staring at a Comm Games disaster. Gina Rinehart may have saved the day
Gout Gout has already said he won’t compete in Glasgow, and a scheduling dilemma threatened the participation of Australia’s biggest swimming stars. Enter the country’s richest person.
- Tom Decent
- Exclusive
- Art & design
Rinehart portrait saga ends with painting returned to billionaire
The flattering portrait of Gina Rinehart has been returned to its donor after a five-year stand-off over the terms of its display.
- Linda Morris
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Charity
The million-plus students cut off from computers in this age of billionaire excess
Once, mothers’ clubs quietly helped students do their homework. Today, companies are being asked to donate disused computers for the same purpose.
- Tony Wright
- Opinion
- Media & marketing
The Australian suffers its own culture war
Just months after running a glossy campaign to promote its new culture section featuring film critic Stephen Romei, the News Corp veteran has been unceremoniously dumped.
- Calum Jaspan
‘I have a case’: Rinehart’s neighbour gets a lesson in suing the billionaire
Disability pensioner Kathy Pope fronted up, via video, to the NSW Supreme Court for her legal suit involving Australia’s richest person and their 12 kilometres of shared fence.
- Lucy Macken
Exclusive Brethren members, Gina Rinehart donate to right-wing group Advance
Clive Palmer was Australia’s biggest political donor, pouring $53 million into his failed campaign, while Coal Australia donated millions to third-party “grassroots” campaigns.
- Natassia Chrysanthos, James Massola and Brittany Busch
- Exclusive
- Investigation
Gina Rinehart, the disability pensioner and a fight over 12km of fencing
As neighbour disputes go, it is the ultimate David versus Goliath battle: the billionaire with a legion of top-tier lawyers against Kathy Pope with no legal team.
- Lucy Macken
- Updated
- City of Perth
Perth council grounds Rinehart’s helipad plans for $270m Hancock headquarters
Despite two councillors backing the proposal, and Perth’s lord mayor describing Gina Rinehart as an “amazing Australian”, the council refused the application during Tuesday night’s meeting.
- Hamish Hastie and Carla Hildebrandt