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The AFR View | Mavericks on top of the Business People of the Year list
The choice of Gina Rinehart as The Australian Financial Review’s 2023 Business Person of the Year duly recognises a lifetime of independent business success and achievement. Her eclectic dealmaking and investment profile in the past 12 months span a hard-fought battle to win control of WA gas developer Warrego Energy; a ...
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Gina Rinehart looks to life beyond the rivers of cash from iron ore
Wesfarmers boss Rob Scott is an unabashed fan of billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart and her achievements in business and contributions to philanthropic and community causes. Rinehart, says Scott, is “the driving force behind one of Australia’s largest and most successful private companies, which has created thousands of jobs ...
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The Australian Financial Review names its Business Person of the Year
Gina Rinehart has capped an extraordinary year of deal-making across the mining, energy, agribusiness and retail sectors by being named The Australian Financial Review Business Person of the Year at a ceremony in Sydney on Thursday evening. The annual AFR Business Person of the Year list recognises Australia’s top ...
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Mrs Gina Rinehart AO Named AFR’s Business Person of the Year
Hancock Prospecting is celebrating tonight after Executive Chairman, Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, was named the Australian Financial Review’s Business Person of the Year at their event in Sydney. Under Mrs Rinehart’s leadership, Hancock Prospecting has been transformed from a company facing a parlous financial position in 1992, when she ...
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Bannister Downs Dairy expands partnership with Foodbank WA to support people in food stress
Bannister Downs Dairy will expand their partnership with Foodbank WA to include fresh and flavoured milk to all branches across Western Australia.
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Designs finalised for the new Korean War Memorial Community Event Space
Roy Hill and long-term partner POSCO have provided $1 million in funding to the Perth Korean War Memorial Committee for the construction of the venue opposite the Korean War Memorial, in Kings Park.
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Farmers Wary of IR Bill
A nationwide overhaul of industrial relations laws has passed through the House of Representatives, angering farmers who had urged Federal Labor to take the "catastrophic" legislation back to the drawing board.
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Atlas Iron recognised for safety efforts
Gina Rinehart's Atlas Iron has been recognised for its commitment to prioritising the health and safety of its people after being awarded the WELL Health-Safety rating. "Our Sanjiv Ridge mining operation is the first mine site in the world to be awarded the WELL Health-Safety Rating, which reinforces our commitment ...
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A world first for Atlas Iron’s Pilbara operations
Hancock Prospecting company Atlas Iron is leading the way in creating safer, healthier, and more satisfying work environments for miners.
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Projects regulated to death
As the minister overseeing the process, he has been unable to effect any real change in seven years, so there’s little confidence that change will happen quickly. According to the CCIWA, there are about $381 billion of investment projects in the pipeline that are yet to receive environmental approval that ...
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Miners dig in on ‘divisive’ IR deal
Labor’s industrial relations deal with resource sector employers has split the mining industry, with Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting opposing the agreement and the Minerals Council of Australia accusing a rival employer body of being a “soft target”. As the Senate crossbench renewed its bid to split the bill ...
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Gina’s Christmas wish
Australia’s richest person has called on the federal government to give the nation a “Christmas bonus” in the form of a petrol excise tax cut to deal with spiralling costs, as “woke agendas” threaten Aussie living standards. “Every few dollars counts for people in tough times,” Mrs Rinehart told ...
Read moreGina’s call for xmas fuel relief
Australians should receive a “much-needed” Christmas bonus from the Federal Government, in the form of another fuel excise cut for December, mining billionaire Gina Rinehart believes. Speaking out after hearing about the impact of cost-of-living rises from West Australians at the National Agriculture and Related Industries Day, Mrs Rinehart said ...
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Gina’s xmas wish for nation
Australia's richest woman has called on the government to give the nation a "Christmas bonus" in the form of a petrol tax excise cut at a time when people are struggling to deal with spiralling costs and said the "woke" agenda threatened living standards. "Every few dollars counts for people ...
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‘Woke minorities’ – Gina Rinehart drops some truth bombs
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has earned some high praise after making some big calls on what the government can do to help Aussies out with the rising cost of living and dealing with noisy public activism.
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Send miners to parliament and students to work, Gina Rinehart says
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has called on the mining sector to push its own workers and advocates into parliament, so they can tear up environmental regulation she warns is jeopardising the industry’s ability to maintain its current levels of production. In a speech to mining executives and ...
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