Gina Rinehart calls on Australians to do one thing now for the country’s future

Gina Rinehart calls on all Australians to take an interest in the future of their country and become more politically active.

The country’s 70-year-old richest person said it was up to everyone to pressure politicians to raise living standards with policies that were outright “pro-Australian”.

“Australians should constantly be questioning our governments, are your policies going to lift our country up, or are they going to drag us down? Are your policies going to improve our living standards, or drag them down?” she said. The Australian.

‘Will your policies improve our education standards, and not be anti-Australian, or degrade our education? Will your policies contribute to our vital defences, or will they degrade them?’

She fiercely defended the mining and agricultural sectors that generated most of her vast fortune.

She said: ‘People forget that everything around us has to be mined or grown, from our cars and laptops to our clothes and medical equipment.’

“If mining is good, Australians are good,” she claimed.

‘I have to say that if things are going badly for mining, things are not going well for Australians either.’

The country’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has called on Australians to pressure politicians to implement policies that raise living standards

Ms Rinehart, executive chair of her company Hancock Prospecting, said many federal and state government policies were unfortunately “having a negative impact” and not in the “best interests of Australians”.

In the past, she has often called for a reduction in bureaucracy and taxes, which she believes hinder economic growth.

Ms Rinehart recently even claimed that the communist government in China is doing better than Australia because China is pursuing “reliable electricity production”, including by building “lots of coal-fired and nuclear power stations”.

She has also called on Australia to follow China’s lead and establish so-called special economic zones, particularly in northern Australia, where the “burden on government” would be reduced to encourage investment.

Another source of irritation is what she called the “lowering of educational standards” by adding woke agendas, scaring students with climate-induced propaganda about global extinction, [and] and her students learn that they should not be proud of their country.

There was one politician, however, who gave Ms Rinehart a glowing report: the federal opposition’s shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

Ms Rinehart said the Northern Territory senator, who led the successful ‘No’ campaign to defeat the proposed ‘Indigenous Voice’ bill before parliament last year, was one of Australia’s “most influential people” of the past 60 years.

Ms Rinehart praised the Opposition Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

She said Senator Price had shown courage and leadership “by standing up for the truth about marginalised Indigenous Australians, particularly women and children, and by making courageous efforts to bring about change to help them”.

Earlier this year, Ms Rinehart’s personal fortune was estimated at a staggering $50 billion, up from $37.1 billion last year.

The increase was largely due to the performance of its majority-owned Roy Hill iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which posted a net profit of $2.7 billion in 2023.

Mrs Rinehart too invests in agriculture through its Hancock Agriculture business, which has focused on producing high-quality Wagyu beef in recent years and owns large tracts of land through its S. Kidman & Co cattle farms.

Among other interests in high-end residential real estate, Ms Rinehart recently acquired iconic Australian fashion brands Driza-Bone and Rossi Boots.