Give Me Missiles: Gina Rinehart and the Pathologies of Mining

Photograph Source: Minister for Trade and Investment The Hon Andrew Robb AO MP – CC BY 4.0

Power should only ever be vested carefully, and certainly not in the hands of mining magnate Gina Rinehart, a creature so comically absurd as to warrant immediate dismissal in any respectable commentary.  But Australia’s richest human being demands to be noticed, given the insensible influence she continues to exert in press and policy circles.  Rants of smelly suggestion become pearls of perfumed wisdom...