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Gine Rinehart with Elon Musk.

Gina Rinehart bets $1.4 billion on Musk with record SpaceX stake

The mammoth bet deepens Rinehart’s ties to Musk - the world’s first trillionaire - and US President Donald Trump.

  • David Swan

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Gina Rinehart is the owner and executive chair of Hancock Prospecting.

Hancock mining riches battle shifts to fight over mammoth legal bill

A massive legal battle that pitted Australia’s richest person against two rival mining dynasties over iron ore riches has reignited – this time over legal costs.

  • Aaron Bunch
Gina Rinehart, Hancock Prospecting civil case decision v Wright Prospecting, DFD Rhodes, main index picture 3x2. Picture: Marija Ercegovac

Rinehart ordered to pay hundreds of millions to rival mining family

The billionaire descendants of iron ore pioneers Lang Hancock and Peter Wright have been locked in a bitter dispute over mining royalties for more than a decade.

  • Heather McNeill and Rebecca Peppiatt
Gina Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting, started by her father Lang (far right), is defending claims to its Hope Downs iron ore tenement in the Pilbara from Wright Prospecting, started by Peter Wright (left).

Inside WA’s battle for billions as Gina Rinehart and rival heirs await defining verdict on iron ore fortune

After more than a decade of legal battles, a landmark Supreme Court ruling will determine who is entitled to billions of dollars in Pilbara iron ore royalties, and could send ripples through the resources sector.

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

Rinehart likens Perth to New York, Tokyo in push for Hancock HQ helipad

Gina Rinehart’s representatives argue a helicopter is essential for Hancock Prospecting’s business and that Perth’s status as a “global city” came with “contemporary needs for globally connected businesses”. 

  • Hamish Hastie