Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has further expanded her empire with the acquisition of a 14-storey office building in Queensland. Ms Rinehart, a multibillionaire mining magnate, secured the Brisbane block at 70 Eagle Street for more than $100 million, the Courier Mail reported. The purchase, from US funds group Pembroke,Continue Reading
Independent experts have been appointed to scrutinise the Western Australian government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The inquiry will scrutinise the state’s weeks of lockdowns, mask wearing rules, mandatory Covid testing, as well as hard border closures which provoked legal challenges from Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer. The three expertsContinue Reading
Australia’s richest man Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has been delivered a fresh major blow as yet another executive walked away from his company Fortescue Metals, which is bleeding senior staff. The mining magnate lost another key lieutenant as his chief financial officer Ian Wells quit on Monday, bringing the number ofContinue Reading
Mining mogul Gina Rinehart has awarded 10 staff members a $100,000 Christmas bonus each. On Monday, a source told 6PR Radio’s the John Hughes Rumour File that staff at Roy Hill, which is owned by Hancock Prospecting, were in the draw to win a $100,000 Christmas bonus. “Apparently last weekContinue Reading