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Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart will hand out another $4.1million in bonuses to employees of her mining company as she marks 41 years at the firm. Ms Rinehart will give 41 Hancock Prospecting staff members $100,000 each this week, with a raffle to determine the lucky recipients. Rinehart has thanked her workers for ‘another great year’ and said all of Australia benefits when her mine thrives.

Australia’s richest person is set to give away 41 prizes in all, or $4.1 million, with about 4000 workers spread across her private company’s mining, energy and agriculture divisions in the running“The mining industry pays by far the highest wages in Australia, close to double the average in other industries. Why would we risk this vital industry for our nation by reintroducing an unhelpful system that didn’t work the last time we had it?” Mrs Rinehart said in a recent response to questions from The Australian Financial Review.

Those 41 prizes represent one for each year Ms Rinehart has worked at Hancock Prospecting. The 4000 workers employed by her companies in mining, energy and agriculture divisions are in the running. Although her fortune is built on iron ore mining, through Hancock Agriculture and S Kidman and Co, Ms Rinehart is both one of the biggest landowners in Australia and owner of one of its biggest cattle herds.

January 2023.

26 January 2023.

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