Gina Rinehart

Georgina Hope Rinehart ( born February 9, 1954 in St John's, Perth, Western Australia ) is an Australian mining entrepreneur.

She was born as the daughter of Lang Hancock in Western Australia and studied in Sydney. In 1983 she married the lawyer Frank Rinehart and took on its last name. After her father's death in 1992 she inherited his company Hancock Prospecting. 2011 Rinehart was touted as the richest Australian. Since May 2012, she is considered the richest woman in the world and thus overtook Christy Walton. Your assets include, according to " Business Review Weekly " more than 29.2 billion Australian dollars ( 22.6 billion euros ). Forbes magazine put it in 2013 at number 16 of the list of 100 most powerful women in the world.

Gina Rinehart avoids the public; insofar as it expresses itself politically, it represents a very conservative and liberal views. Thus, on August 29, 2012, in a column of the magazine " Australian Resources and Investment ': Who was jealous of richer, should" not sit around and whine "but" less time drinking, smoking and meeting spend with people and to work more ". At the same time they demanded a lowering of the minimum wage to the equivalent of 500 euros per week with simultaneous tax cuts for the rich. That would bring more employment. Because of these statements it is strong in criticism.

In the 1990s, she attracted public attention by a years -long lawsuit against her stepmother, Rose Porteous. Rinehart demanded from her the surrender of property worth 26 million euros, and they suspected to have murdered Lang Hancock. Peter Foss, then Minister of Justice in Western Australia, initially refused an autopsy of Hancock's corpse. However, it appeared Philippine witnesses who supported Rineharts guesses. The autopsy revealed that Hancock had died a natural death. A little later it was announced that the witnesses of money Rinehart had received for their statements.

Rinehart is with 3 of their 4 children in a financial dispute. Following a request from Hancock should a trust that held a quarter of the shares of Hancock Prospecting, pass on 9 September 2011 on the four siblings. Shortly before the date requested Rinehart on their children to agree to a term extension of the Trust to 2068. The three older children subsequently sought unsuccessfully to court in order to settle down Rinehart as Agents of the Trust.