Gina Rinehart

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Pauline Hanson visited the college in October.

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

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Negotiations over 12 kilometres of fencing between Gina Rinehart’s farm and that of Kathy Pope have moved behind closed doors.

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
Gina Rinehart with Australian Olympic great Dawn Fraser.

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
A portrait of Gina Rinehart, from a series by WA artist Alix Korte, posted on the mining billionaire’s official website.

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
Stack of books at the library.

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
Gemmell and Romei’s video series was short-lived.

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
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Gina Rinehart is one of the largest cattle farmers in the Northern Tablelands, with 42,000 hectares of farmland.

‘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
Brethren Church members at a polling booth in Sydney during the election campaign last year.

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
Kathy Pope is suing Gina Rinehart over a dispute over 12 kilometres of fencing.

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
Gina Rinehart and an artist’s impression of Hancock Prospecting’s $270 million West Perth headquarters.

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