Gina Rinehart sends a message to Donald Trump’s critics as she is spotted in London
Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart has delivered a direct message to critics of newly elected President Donald Trump during an outing in London.
Ms. Rinehart was spotted on Sunday carrying a silver clutch emblazoned with the words “Trump, Truth” as she entered her hotel.
The brightly colored bag contrasted with the rest of the 70-year-old’s black outfit, which she completed with red Valentino Soul sunglasses worth more than $1,000 and pearl accessories.
Ms Rinehart, who became Australia’s richest person with an estimated fortune of more than $30 billion after inheriting her father’s mining company, is a known Trump supporter.
The Australian billionaire made headlines last month when she was spotted holding hands with Trump’s daughter as she mingled with friends and supporters of the US Republican presidential candidate at his election party at Mar-A-Lago.
A beaming Ms. Rinehart posed with Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s fourth child, during the purple-lit soirée at his sprawling family home in Florida.
Ms. Rinehart wore a wide-brimmed farmer’s hat and proudly held a sign on her shoulders with Trump’s pro-mining mantra: “drill, baby drill.”
The billionaire mining magnate sat with the socialist founder of the pro-Trump women’s support group the Trumpettes, Toni Holt Kramer.
Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart has delivered a direct message to critics of newly elected President Donald Trump during an outing in London.
Ms. Rinehart has been an outspoken supporter of the president-elect and attended his election party at Mar-A-Lago last month
Ms Kramer boasted she was sitting with “Australia’s biggest celebrity”.
“Gina Rinehart is here and she looks phenomenal in her Western Australian hat,” she told 7News.
“And Teena McQueen is here, so we have all the very important people of Australia who love your country.
‘We sit together, we’ve all been friends for seven or eight years. I would say Gina is to Australia what President Trump is to America: she wants to see nothing but good for your country.
“She wants to see everything that would make your country better and better.
“And she is the most dedicated woman I know, and always has been from the day I met her.”
Ms Rinehart’s bold fashion and political statement comes just two weeks after the Albanian government rejected its plea for a Trump-inspired unity to reduce government waste in Australia.
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However, on the Sunrise programme, federal Housing Minister Clare O’Neil said ordinary Aussies should “get a shiver down their spine when we see a few billionaires talking about the efficiency of government services”.
“What that really means for your viewers is drastic cuts to essential services like health, education and other services that we ordinary Australians rely on,” Ms O’Neil told Nat Barr on her Sunrise show.
Rinehart completed her outfit with red Valentino Soul sunglasses, worth more than $1,000, and pearl accessories
Rinehart, who became Australia’s richest person with an estimated fortune of more than $30 billion after inheriting her father’s mining company, is an outspoken supporter of Trump
“This has no relevance to Australia.
‘The government does incredibly important things. It looks after our sick children in hospital, it educates our children, it pays for aged care for Australians,” Ms O’Neil replied.
“These are abstract things for billionaires who can pay for themselves, but for ordinary people these are meaningful and important things in their lives.”
Her statement followed an Australian Bureau of Statistics report which said 26,000 civil servants had been added to the bureaucracy since the Albanian government came to power in 2022.
With more than half of that increase in new jobs in Canberra, the national capital’s wage bill was up 23 per cent.
Total public sector wages were $37 billion per year, up from $32.5 billion in June 2022, with a total workforce of 365,400.
According to the report, 15,100 public sector jobs will be added in the period 2023-2024, after 11,000 jobs were created in the first year of the Albanian government.
