Georgina Hope "Gina" Rinehart is an Australian mining tycoon. She is the heiress of Hancock Prospecting and the daughter of the late Lang Hancock and Hope Margaret Nicholas. Richest person in Australia, Richest woman in the world.
Background
Rinehart was born in Perth, the daughter of Hope Margaret Nicholas and Lang Hancock, until she was four,later boarding at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls.
As a teenager Rinehart met Englishman Greg Milton, while both were working in Wittenoom and Bianca Hope. However, the marriage did not last; Rinehart and Hayward separated in 1979 and divorced in 1981. In 1983 she married Frank Rinehart, a 57 year old German AmericanFrank died in 1990.
She became involved in an acrimonious legal fight with her stepmother, Rose Porteous.
In 1999 her proposal to name a mountain range after her family was approved.
Education
St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls in Perth.
Sydney University
Career
In a 2012 article in the Australian Resources and Investment Magazine, Rinehart said that if people wanted to have more money they should “stop whingeing” and “Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working”. She criticised what she saw as the “socialist” policies of the Australian Government of “high taxes” and “excessive regulation”.
Politics
Rinehart founded the lobby group ANDEV, ("Australians for Northern Development & Economic Vision")[39] and has paid for the trips of climate change "denier", Christopher Monckton to Australia.