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28 May 2023.

Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart delivered a potentially lifesaving reminder to all Australians after being crowned Western Australian of the Year 2023. The richest woman in the country used her acceptance speech to open up about a recent cancer scare, with the 69-year-old undergoing a facial melanoma removal just hours before the event. Ms Rinehart attended the gala dinner held at Perth’s Crown Ballroom on Friday night, wearing an elegant off-white gown accessorised with a fan to cover bruising on the right side of her face.

When Gina Rinehart took over Hancock Prospecting after the death of her father Lang Hancock in 1992, she inherited a company on the brink. Far from the powerhouse it is today, Hancock Prospecting had significant debts, and many of its assets were under mortgage. West Australians know well how the story goes from here (even if some east coast pundits prefer to ignore it). Mrs Rinehart has worked tirelessly in the three decades since to transform her family business into the most successful private company in Australia’s history.

Gina Rinehart was named Western Australian of the Year 2023 at Perth’s Crown Ballroom on Friday night, sporting a bruised face which she explained was due to having a melanoma removed. “I should probably remind you all, please do the sun cream, do the hats and do the check-ups, please, which I didn’t do,” she said, holding a fan to the side of her face. Accepting the award from Mark McGowan just a few hours before the end of his six-year reign as premier of Western Australia, Rinehart said a lot of people were going to miss him and asked everyone to give him a round of applause.

Gina Rinehart appears satisfied — finally. In a wide-ranging interview after winning the Western Australian of the Year award on Friday night she’s willing to open up on everything. From how hard it was to be a working mum in the early Nineties, to carrying on the legacy of her pioneering family in this State, to her recent battle with facial skin cancer. More than anything she seems grateful.

Businesswoman who prefers to work in the background wins West Aussie of Year.
Australia’s top businesswoman Gina Rinehart has been named Western Australian of the Year in recognition of her generous philanthropy and unrivalled corporate success. “It’s a wonderful honour to be recognised here tonight,” Mrs Rinehart said when accepting the award in front of a star-studded crowd that included Premier Mark McGowan at his last official event and the next premier Roger Cook, as well as a host of other business leaders and politicians. “I’m incredibly proud of what we have achieved . . . and what we’ve been able to contribute to Western Australia and our country and its future.”

Australia’s top businesswoman Gina Rinehart has been named Western Australian of the Year in recognition of her generous philanthropy and unrivalled corporate success.

Mrs Rinehart, a leading figure in the mining and agricultural industries, received the prestigious honour at a gala dinner at Crown Ballroom where the finalists and winners of The Western Australian of the Year Awards were celebrated on Friday night.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart continued to be a major property-market player during autumn, with her Hancock Agriculture buying the Packhorse Pastoral Company operations Ottley Station in NSW and Moolan Downs in Queensland last week for an undisclosed sum.

Australia’s richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, has expanded her Wagyu beef empire after paying around $80 million for two prime cattle stations put up for sale by former Young Rich Lister Tom Strachan’s Packhorse Pastoral.For Mrs Rinehart, the acquisitions are part of a major reshaping of her agricultural portfolio as her Hancock Prospecting Group turns its focus to producing higher-value Wagyu beef.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has expanded her Wagyu cattle empire with the acquisition of two stations that were part of Packhorse Pastoral company’s “cattle and carbon” investment portfolio that went on the market following the death of co-founder Tom Strachan in 2022. Ms Rinehart’s Hancock Agricultural, has bought the 8731ha Ottley Station west of Inverell in northern NSW and the 10,029ha Moolan Downs Aggregation in the Western Downs region of Queensland for about $80m.