Gina Rinehart

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{{cquote|Despite what Channel 10 would have you believe, the only genius financial decision that Gina ever made was not being choked by her own umbilical cord.|||Jordan Shanks<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylPh6M2LCWY "Australia Was Almost NUKED"]</ref>}}

'''Gina [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic_5JR65WGM "Vogon"] Rinehart''' {{lived|1954|}} is an [[Australia]]n mining heiress and a compelling argument for the nationalisation of her industry.  Gina is the daughter of the late Lang Hancock,<ref group="note">Her father, who Gina believes was a visionary, seriously proposed that we [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMaRuk6pGOc put contraceptives in the drinking water in the Kimberly] to restrict the reproduction of indigenous Australians. This is the same man who had a daughter to an indigenous woman and refused to recognise her. The indigenous woman involved acknowledges her origins but said she wasn't interested in claiming any portion of his assets.</ref> inheriting Hancock Prospecting following his death in 1992. She was at one time the wealthiest woman in the world, with a personal net worth of $18.9bn. When she started out in 1992, all she had was a dream. And $75 million dollars. 

Gina and her family of thieves have stolen billions from Australians. They receive the lion's share of mining profits because the government allows [[Aristocracy|individual families]] to own assets that are non-innovative, required by all, and generate massive profit.  The Rineharts don't even do the developing themselves; all they do is sell their ore rights to companies like Rio Tinto.<ref>Hoyle, Rhiannon, [http://www.wsj.com/articles/gina-rinehart-wins-legal-battle-against-rio-tinto-1444787189 "Gina Rinehart Wins Legal Battle Against Rio Tinto"], [[WSJ]] (10/13/15 at 9:46 p.m. ET).  Gina Rinehart is a black hole for money.</ref> Other companies do all of the actual work of developing the mine, but it happens in a 'joint venture' so that Gina gets her share and it looks like she's doing something useful. She's taking a finite natural resource and shipping it off to other countries so she can hoard cash. She's just a glorified shoveling and taxi service.  

If she'd been born with nothing, she'd be the local caravan park harridan (much like that Dan Bilzerian shitkicker), but instead you get her witless articles sprayed over the press every few months.

==A Dolla Make Her Holla==
{{cquote|...slothful, vindictive and devious baby elephant"|||Lang Hancock<ref name="chenery">Chenery, Susan, [http://www.listener.co.nz/current-affairs/business/gina-rinehart-australias-lonely-little-rich-girl/ "Gina Rinehart: Australia’s lonely little rich girl"], ''New Zealand Listener'' 7.28.12.</ref> (Looks like someone's already made a start on that obituary)}}

==Controversial viewpoints==

Rinehart has caused some public controversy and debate over her personal viewpoints and for statements she has made in recent times. (15 billion dollars, and she still can't afford decent PR. Or some decent eyebrows.)  You can't deny she makes great copy. She owns a fair chunk of Fairfax, so perhaps she is single-handedly trying to revive their fortunes by literally [[Proll|making the news for them.]]

In 2012, Rinehart stated that Australians should spend less time consuming alcohol and socializing if they desired to become wealthy. This offended then-Australian treasurer Wayne Swann who considered it an attack upon the working class, while Ged Kearney of the Australian Council Of Trade Unions claimed Rinehart's views were immensely backward.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/9510025/Gina-Rinehart-attacks-jealous-poor.html. "Gina Rinehart attacks 'jealous poor'"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', August 30, 2012. She earns the weekly minimum wage every second. It's a tough life being a mean-spirited scrooge with vendetta in your blood.</ref> 

A handy guide to picking yourself up by your bootstraps, by Gina Rinehart.
#Go back in time
#<big>'''HAVE YOUR FATHER DISCOVER AND DEVELOP THE WORLD'S LARGEST IRON ORE MINE'''</big>
#Profit

Rinehart created more controversy in 2014 when she argued that Australian [[Welfare queen|welfare recipients]] were destroying the economy and accused [[Liberal media|left-wing media]] sources of brainwashing the public.<ref>Janda, Michael, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-07/rinehart-says-australian-politicians-should-emulate-thatcher/5306618 "Gina Rinehart takes aim at Australia's 'entitlement mentality', points to Thatcher"], ABC (Updated 7 Mar 2014, 7:33am). Hmm, minimum wage collecting empties at the local or digging rocks for a billionaire. A tough decision.</ref>  This from the person who bought a newspaper so she could [[Psychological projection|whine like a stuck pig about taxes and her workers' salaries]] any chance she gets.

In 2013, Rinehart intimated that convicted felons should pay a fine to avoid prison.<ref>Butler, Ben, [http://www.smh.com.au/business/rinehart-says-prisoners-should-be-able-to-pay-their-way-out-of-jail-20130905-2t7kv "Rinehart says prisoners should be able to pay their way out of jail"], SMH 9.5.13. What does she think this is, a game of Monopoly? </ref> For the incredibly wealthy, increasing their wealth makes little marginal difference. However, increasing the power of what you can do with your wealth makes a big difference. This proposal is not about getting out of jail. She's literally asking to be able to [[Plutonomy|write a check]] for all her misdoings. But notice how it is sold. It would be doing us a favour by saving taxpayer money from being [[Small government|'wasted'.]]  We particularly like how she suggested you could forgo your voting rights if you didn't have enough money to pay for release. 

Laws? Taxes? Pfft... they're for the little people.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/business/gina-rinehart-company-faces-fines-after-allegedly-not-lodging-annual-reports-20140404-364cz.html "Gina Rinehart company faces fines after allegedly not lodging annual reports"], ''The Age'' 4.4.14. 
'''[http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/4c/4c2f8b5346590f330bbec241e2ce7ac176f43ee8abf9d78226f6eaa0b917d572.jpg Poodo da imperal regulations. Chut chut 457!]'''</ref> [[Deregulation|Drop all regulations]] so we can be just like [[India]]!<ref>La Canna, Xavier, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-23/scrap-all-regulations-on-small-businesses-rinehart-urges/5912100 "Scrap all regulations for small businesses, mining magnate Gina Rinehart urges"], ABC (Updated 11/23/14, 1:40pm). They do worship cows over there, so she might do all right.</ref> What an amazing standard of living and corruption we can aspire to.  [[Chewbacca defense|Her message is so mixed]] one presumes she is caught in a maelstrom of her own spin.

She thinks Australia is blessed but could do with a dose of [[Thatcher]]ism.<ref>Helen Davidson and Michael Safi
 [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/06/gina-reinhart-australia-needs-thatcherism "Margaret Thatcher made ‘courageous decisions in the interests of Britain, despite noisy detractors’"], ''[[The Guardian]]'' (3/6/14 at 02:29 EST, modified 5/8/16 at 20:56 EDT). OK, just shut down all the mines, just as Thatcher would want!</ref> Thatcher would eat you for breakfast, spit you out into the ocean and then sink you with a torpedo, Rinehart. Furthermore, Thatcher was educated in chemistry and took climate change very seriously. This woman's pores are literally leaking entitlement juices.

She didn't actually call for sterilization of the poor, though. What does it say about our society that we have trouble working out if [http://dailycurrant.com/2013/05/28/gina-rinehart-calls-for-sterilization-of-the-poor/ this] kind of thing is satire or not?

When it comes to government styles, Rinehart adores the [[authoritarian]] government of [[China]] in comparison to the [[democratic]] government of Australia. In a keynote address delivered to the purportedly [[libertarian]] [[Institute of Public Affairs]], Rinehart praised China's {{wpl|Special economic zones of China|special economic zones}} as well as China's rapid expansion of [[coal]] and [[nuclear power]] plants. She chastised Australia's [[carbon neutrality]] policy (and [[climate change]] in general) as being "climate-induced global extinction [[propaganda]]". Rinehart praised China's education system, with its state-enforced [[jingoism]],<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-passes-patriotic-education-law-children-families-state-media-2023-10-25/ "China passes patriotic education law for children, families -state media"] by Reuters, 2023 October 24</ref> in contrast to Australian's education system, which she described as having "[[woke]] agendas" and "teaching its students not to be proud of their country."<ref>[https://archive.ph/gtb9j#selection-429.205-429.231 "Mining magnate Gina Rinehart says China’s government is ‘doing a better job than ours’"] by Adam Creighton, The Australianm 2024 April 21, archived on 2024 April 22</ref> (In reality, in most surveys, Australia's education system is generally ranked a fair bit higher than China's; to give but one example, a {{wpl|U.S. News & World Report|''U.S. News and World Report''}} survey in 2023 ranked Australia as #8 and China as #23.)<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/best-countries-for-education "Best Countries for Education",] US News and World Report, 2023</ref>

On the flip side, in a [[stopped clock]] moment, Rinehart supports Ukraine in the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]], to the point of pissing off the government of [[Vladimir Putin]] into banning her from Russia for having a supposed "Russophobia agenda".<ref>[https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/gina-rinehart-fires-back-after-being-named-on-list-of-aussies-banned-from-russia/news-story/89fd2061ccc318c0972c4f31fff3df0c "Gina Rinehart fires back after being named on list of Aussies banned from Russia"] by Rohan Smith, News Corp Australia, 2022 June 18</ref>

==Activism==

*It's concerning that mining barons are holding meetings in private with the nation's leaders,<ref>Swan, Jonathan, [http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/gina-rinehart-meets-coalition-mps-in-secret-trip-to-canberra-20131113-2xh77.html "Gina Rinehart meets Coalition MPs in secret trip to Canberra"], SMH 11.14.13.</ref> but then they do have a mining magnate in the HOR. (''Starting to think the mining industry may have an unhealthy amount of power in Australia...'')
*She's one of the main backers of the [[Institute of Public Affairs]] (a [[Rupert Murdoch|Murdoch]]-run [[think tank]]) who have a large say in [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] policy - in fact many Liberal party "ideas" are copypasted from the Institute of Public Affairs.<ref>Wilson, Cameron, [http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/nt-tax-free/5344540 "Should the Northern Territory be tax free?"], ABC (3/28/14 at 11:12AM).</ref> 
*Rinehart founded the [[Tax protester|anti-tax]] and [[Climate change denial|climate change "skeptic"]] lobbying group ANDEV ("Australians for Northern Development & Economic Vision"), and has paid for the trips of [[Christopher Monckton]] and [[Ian Plimer]] to Australia. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX2kMAfJggU Here] is a secret video with Monckton explaining how to "create a [[Fox News]] channel like the US, to control media influence." Gina thinks that scientists are [http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/documents/gina2012/QandA_Gina.pdf misleading the public] about a naturally-occurring phenomenon. She probably thinks geologists are top-notch, though. The iron-y (lol) being that much of climate science is done by geologists.
*Rinehart took a lesson from her old man in buying a newspaper to push her views.<ref name="chenery" /> The value of unfettered propaganda is pretty high to right-wing corporate [[fascist]] types. The irony of Rinehart suing for journalist sources whilst trying to retain credibility as a primary shareholder of Fairfax should not be lost, people.<ref>Robertson, James, [http://www.smh.com.au/national/rinehart-fails-to-force-journalist-to-reveal-sources-20130806-2rdjb.html "Rinehart fails to force journalist to reveal sources"], SMH 8.7.13.</ref>
*She stood in opposition to the carbon tax introduced by the-then Australian government in 2011<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/may/31/mining-media-australia-carbon-tax. "How mining and media distract Australia's carbon tax debate"], Environment blog on ''[[The Guardian]]'' website, May 31, 2011.</ref> 
*She gets everything she wants from her toadies in power, yet she's still unhappy. "Trump found out that Americans wanted America to be great again, regulations cut, taxes lowered and Americans to be safe, and then committed to do something about this."<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/gina-rineharts-message-to-australian-politicians-on-what-the-country-needs/news-story/246dc71f1e7ccea4e06d36faf19ab836 "Gina Rinehart’s message to Australian politicians on what the country needs"], news.au (12/31/16 at 6:48am).</ref> If Rinehart really is bankrolling Senator Bernardi's new political party, than this is a good PR exercise:<ref>Smethurst, Annika, [http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/gina-rinehart-should-be-next-australian-of-the-year-says-senator-cory-bernardi/news-story/c008361dfdec408e9787b6044cacb57f?nk=ed101f2c23d07b5d20e50a519437872f-1484759033 "Gina Rinehart should be next Australian of the Year, says Senator Cory Bernardi"], ''Herald Sin'' (1/20/16 at 4:22pm).</ref><ref>Bickers, Claire, [https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/is-gina-rinehart-helping-cory-bernardi-set-up-a-donald-trump-inspired-political-party-ng-b88336735z "Is Gina Rinehart helping Cory Bernardi set up a Donald Trump-inspired political party?"], ''West Australian'' (12/21/16 at 2:30PM).</ref> [[Reaganism|Anti-tax, don't trust today's pollies, champion for the little guy.]]<ref>Duffy, Andrew, [https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/rinehart-wants-1500-foreigners-to-fill-mining-jobs/ "Rinehart wants 1,500 foreigners to fill mining jobs"], 3.20.12.</ref> Come next year, splashed across all Murdoch papers: "Under New Management, Adults Are in Charge, Kick This Mob IN!".
*Rinehart has previously promoted the idea that Western Australia secede from the rest of the country.<ref name="willet">Willet, Megan, [http://www.businessinsider.com.au/gina-rineharts-public-scandals-2012-9 "12 Reasons Why So Many People Hate Australian Billionaire Gina Rinehart"], ''Business Insider'' (9/14/12 at 5:07 AM).</ref>
*She once looked into the feasibility of using a nuclear bomb to create a harbour on the north-west coat of Australia.{{onion}} She's like a villain from Captain Planet, which, to be fair, seems to be a recurring theme in Australia at the moment.<ref name="willet" />  Lang also wanted to use nukes to get shit out of the ground faster. Too bad they didn't give him a test round, the radiation might have sterilised him.

==Family==

Gina got put in charge of the family trust. She was supposed to give to her children at age 30. When the bill came due, Gina didn't cough up the money because "they're not mature enough", which isn't how trusts work. What kind of [[Sociopath|psychopath]] defrauds their own children out of their inheritance?<ref>Spicer, David, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-26/gina-rinehart-family-feud-over-fortune-to-be-heard-in-open-court/7448368 "Gina Rinehart family feud over billion-dollar fortune to be heard in open court"], ABC (Updated 25 May 2016, 8:55pm).</ref>(''One who likes being one of the richest individuals in Australia. On the downside Christmas must get a bit awkward.'') Her own kids refer to her as Fatty. Jesus, even in her own family she can't command respect.<ref>Perlman, Jonathan, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11568362/Australias-wealthy-Gina-Rineharts-children-describe-her-as-fat-and-a-bully-in-vicious-lawsuit.html "Australia's wealthy Gina Rinehart's children describe her as 'fat' and a 'bully' in vicious lawsuit"] ''Telegraph'' (2:25PM BST 28 Apr 2015). Bianca's Mom is a big fat bitch, she's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world, she's a stupid bitch, if there ever was a bitch, she's a bitch to all the boys and girls ♪</ref>

But seriously, anyone else who did what she did would be hammered in the courts. S'pose you get the justice you can afford, and Gina can afford the best. 

She might have lost this round of ''Let me bully my children the way my father bullied me'',<ref>[http://www.theshovel.com.au/2015/05/29/gina-rinehart-hopeful-of-repairing-relationship-with-her-estranged-money/ Gina Rinehart Hopeful Of Repairing Relationship With Her Estranged Money]</ref> but Gina's independent wealth was estimated at [http://workinglife.org.au/2014/06/02/rinehart/ $US12.2 billion  ($15.8 billion)], down from $US17.4 billion in '13. She'll be fine. 


Milla Jovovich
 Bianca Rinehart is currently running the trust. Sorry, she's already married. (And she'll [http://archive.is/KawgM age terribly.])

==Thin skin==
[[File:Gina_rinehart_portrait.jpg|thumb|250px|Rinehart alongside the painting she tried to prevent you from seeing.]]
Showing that Rinehart had never heard of the [[Streisand effect]], in May 2024, Rinehart tried to suppress an unflattering portrait of her by acclaimed indigenous artist {{wpl|Vincent Namatjira}} that was being displayed as part of an exhibition of Namatjira's work at the {{wpl|National Gallery of Australia||.}}<ref>[https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/vincent-namatjira-australia-in-colour/ "VINCENT NAMATJIRA: Australia in colour"], National Gallery of Australia</ref> When that failed, Rinehart embarked on a campaign to have those in her orbit pester the gallery with the same demand.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/australian-billionaire-gina-rinehart-fumes-over-portrait-installed-in-national-gallery "Australia’s Richest Woman Demands Gallery Remove Her Unsightly Portrait"] by Josh Fiallo, Daily Beast, 2024 May 15</ref>

Predictably, this attempt at [[censorship]] failed miserably. Not only did the gallery refuse to censor the painting, the attempted censorship resulted in international coverage of the censorship attempt (which often included unflattering coverage of her family's [[racism]] and unsavory history), as well as widespread [[memes]] and mockery on social media.<ref>[https://time.com/6978709/gina-rinehart-australia-national-gallery-namatjira-portrait-indigenous/ "An Australian Billionaire Tried to Suppress an Aboriginal Artist’s Unflattering Portrait of Her. It’s Only Drawn More Attention"] by Kohewe, Time, 2024 May 18</ref>

==''Gina Shrugged''==

Benjamin Marks, an Australian [[libertarian]] activist and comic writer created a website and Facebook page defending Ms Reinhart, where he argues that she is our "friendly voice of moderation"<ref>Mr Marks' website http://www.ginarinehart.info/</ref>.  

==Notes==
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==See also==

*[[Donald Trump]] - Has there ever been anyone so fixated on their wealth and trolling the public? Oh. (She makes Donald look like a saint and a supermodel.)
*[[Silvio Berlusconi]] - But people actually ''liked'' Berlusconi.

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewH6YJiCG78 Inside the Mind of Gina Reinhart] on [[YouTube]]
*[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gina_Rinehart Rinehart's page at SourceWatch]
*[http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/coalition-mps-in-overseas-study-claim-for-wedding-20131005-2v13w.html Coaltion MPs claim $12,000 in "overseas study"....at Rinehart's partner's wedding.]
* Hey, remember that time she said ''The Simpsons'' [http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/gina-versus-the-simpsons-20120710-21u5n.html should be banned from television?] ''There is clearly not enough litigation in the Simpson family and they even all still communicate. Disgusting.''
*[http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/gina-rinehart-sues-channel-nine-over-her-weight-mothers-hair-colour-in-tv-miniseries-20160311-gngblg.html Gina Rinehart sues Channel Nine over her weight, mother's hair colour in TV mini-series] - Everyone knows the camera adds 100 pounds.

==References==
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