Normally,the saying is you need money to make money,but in WA it seems you need ore to make more – and keep a close watch on China,costs and the energy transition.
With Jo Wright’s simple probe,she epitomised the disparity between working-class and corporate Australia.
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.
The miner plans to use solar and wind power to slash emissions to generate electricity by 75 per cent at its proposed Winu copper mine in the remote northern Pilbara.
The global resources giant expects to dig up 1.5 billion tonnes of iron ore in Africa over the next 26 years,stimulating its growth and expenses.
The brawl has been described as a lawyers’ picnic,but are the WA mining dynasties wrangling over Hope Downs dining out on public resources?
Lawyers for Gina Rinehart’s eldest children claim they have smoking gun evidence the billionaire committed fraud by destroying their lucrative trust fund,aided by company directors unwilling to stand up to her.
Gina Rinehart’s eldest children have thrust the billionaire’s infamous estate row with her father back into the spotlight – including a letter he penned in 1988.
Muriel Demarcus,whose husband recently controversially resigned as Rio Tinto boss,has left the Australian Institute of Company Directors over its Voice support.
The billionaire’s children sat in the public gallery as their barrister pored over intimate details of the alleged betrayal that sparked a bitter family feud.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart’s eldest children have made a shock appearance at the WA Supreme Court in a high-stakes civil trial that has pitted them against their mother and two other mining dynasties.