Gina Rinehart

[Calliope]

Haha I know true love when I see it boys , no need denying it - your mega fans and thats cool.

Its just like if Roger Waters started a mining company id buy shares Solely based on his awesomeness.

We just have different taste in people

Childish and pathetic.

 

[Julia]

Its just like if Roger Waters started a mining company id buy shares Solely based on his awesomeness.

We just have different taste in people

Sorry to intrude on this erudite exchange but who is Roger Waters and what is his relevance to either Gina Rinehart or mining?

 

[numbercruncher]

You must of lived a artistically detached life if you dont know who Roger Waters is

Relevance is by way of demonstrating bias and motive your honour

Feel free to intrude anytime ....

 

[johenmo]

... but who is Roger Waters ....

Pink Floyd - a band (just in case you don't know about them)

I'd rather listen to Roger than Gina.

 

[Julia]

Artistic? Pink Floyd? If you say so. Hardly my idea of artistic.
However, that aside, I'm no less confused about why such a person would have any qualifications to be on the Fairfax board.
Probably best not pursued.

 

[Knobby22]

Rinehart treated us as inferiors, says son

Lauren Quaintance
Published: June 24, 2012 - 3:00AM From the Sunday Age


GINA Rinehart's estranged son, John Hancock, has told the author of a new book that his mother favoured the two daughters of her second husband because they were seen as genetically superior.

In a rare insight into the complex family dynamics of the world's richest woman, Mr Hancock, Rinehart's son to Englishman Greg Milton, told Fairfax journalist and author Adele Ferguson that his younger sisters, Hope and Ginia, from Rinehart's second marriage were ''put on top from the moment they were born''.

''Again and again it was drilled into them that they were superior, almost as if we [John and his sister Bianca] were adopted children whose future was to work in the grease traps,'' he says.

Ginia, 25, has sided with her mother in a dispute over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust and is now regarded as her successor.

Mr Hancock's father, who the mining heiress married when she was 19 and who later became a taxi driver, would be all but airbrushed from the family narrative. On the other hand, Ms Rinehart described her much older second husband, Harvard-educated tax lawyer Frank Rinehart, as the ''finest person I've ever known''.

But, as reported in The Age yesterday, the book reveals that Frank Rinehart was convicted of tax fraud and had many secrets in his past. Mr Hancock describes his stepfather as a ''hard man'' and says that when he was 12 years old Frank Rinehart physically challenged him and once disciplined him by punching him in the face.

''My mother's view would be, 'Let the ones who can't swim drown. Survival of the fittest - there can be no place for weak men.' ''

When he was 27, Mr Hancock quietly dropped his stepfather's name and adopted his grandfather's name by deed poll.

 

[Julia]

So we should assume that John Hancock is absolutely without bias, can relate the family history entirely objectively?

I don't know too many families where different members will not give a different account of the same events.

His remarks may well just reflect his own sense of inadequacy rather than any accurate perception of his mother's attitude toward him.

I have no idea. I don't know any of them. I just find the apparent unquestioning acceptance of the point of view of the aggrieved children a bit unreasonable without hearing the other side.

 

[Macquack]

So we should assume that John Hancock is absolutely without bias, can relate the family history entirely objectively?

I don't know too many families where different members will not give a different account of the same events.

His remarks may well just reflect his own sense of inadequacy rather than any accurate perception of his mother's attitude toward him.

I have no idea. I don't know any of them. I just find the apparent unquestioning acceptance of the point of view of the aggrieved children a bit unreasonable without hearing the other side.

We won't hear Gina Rinehart's side of the story.

What John Hancock says seems fair and reasonable to me.

 

[Julia]

What John Hancock says seems fair and reasonable to me.

Of course it does.
And I'm sure you'd be privy to all that has gone on in that family.

 

[dutchie]

Can't but agree with the Greens that we should ban Gina from having a stake in any media so that she does not have the ability to badly influence the "public interest".

Thats one thing this country can do without. We certainly don't want individuals or minorities unfairly determining what is best for us, in the "public interest"

Go the hypocrites! Ooops I mean Go the Greens!



http://www.theaustralian.com.au/med...ck-gina-rinehart/story-e6frg996-1226407045061

 

[Miss Hale]

Rinehart treated us as inferiors, says son

Lauren Quaintance
Published: June 24, 2012 - 3:00AM From the Sunday Age


GINA Rinehart's estranged son, John Hancock, has told the author of a new book that his mother favoured the two daughters of her second husband because they were seen as genetically superior.

In a rare insight into the complex family dynamics of the world's richest woman, Mr Hancock, Rinehart's son to Englishman Greg Milton, told Fairfax journalist and author Adele Ferguson that his younger sisters, Hope and Ginia, from Rinehart's second marriage were ''put on top from the moment they were born''.

''Again and again it was drilled into them that they were superior, almost as if we [John and his sister Bianca] were adopted children whose future was to work in the grease traps,'' he says.

Ginia, 25, has sided with her mother in a dispute over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust and is now regarded as her successor.

Mr Hancock's father, who the mining heiress married when she was 19 and who later became a taxi driver, would be all but airbrushed from the family narrative. On the other hand, Ms Rinehart described her much older second husband, Harvard-educated tax lawyer Frank Rinehart, as the ''finest person I've ever known''.

But, as reported in The Age yesterday, the book reveals that Frank Rinehart was convicted of tax fraud and had many secrets in his past. Mr Hancock describes his stepfather as a ''hard man'' and says that when he was 12 years old Frank Rinehart physically challenged him and once disciplined him by punching him in the face.

''My mother's view would be, 'Let the ones who can't swim drown. Survival of the fittest - there can be no place for weak men.' ''

When he was 27, Mr Hancock quietly dropped his stepfather's name and adopted his grandfather's name by deed poll.

I find it interesting that when John Hancock decided to drop his adoptive name he chose his grandfather's name and not his father's name. Could he not himself be contributing to 'airbrushing his father from the family narrative'?

 

[numbercruncher]

It seems that Gina believes that we have such a shortage of workers in this country/world that we cant even find english speaking ones !

Surely the Rinehart fanbois here can see this woman is taking the obsolute piss ?

Q&A, June 4:

The Greens leader, Senator Christine Milne: ''Gina Rinehart had asked to lower the English language literacy standards for people being brought in. That's been something that unions have fought for 100 years for decent occupational health and safety standards … ''

http://m.smh.com.au/opinion/rinehart-didnt-start-the-fire-20120624-20way.html

 

[Knobby22]

I find it interesting that when John Hancock decided to drop his adoptive name he chose his grandfather's name and not his father's name. Could he not himself be contributing to 'airbrushing his father from the family narrative'?

What did his father do to be so universally disliked?

 

[jersey10]

On 4 corners now..

 

[MrBurns]

Interesting, now that I know more I agree she has to be watched.

Cant understand why a woman just cant give her kids money to set them up, she's certainly made life hard for herself.

Also cant understand how a man as successful as Lang could link up with the likes of Rose.

 

[sptrawler]

Interesting, now that I know more I agree she has to be watched.

Cant understand why a woman just cant give her kids money to set them up, she's certainly made life hard for herself.

Also cant understand how a man as successful as Lang could link up with the likes of Rose.

It also supports the old belief, you don't skip a generation in your will. Lang should have left it to Gina and then she leaves it to her kids. Saves all this garbage, everyone knows where they stand.

 

[numbercruncher]

Kids have been so shafted that they are now forced to seek independent help to try secure their birthright.

THE only son of mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, John Hancock, plans to gain access to a family trust worth many millions of dollars with the help of a mystery Chinese benefactor.
Mr Hancock told the ABC's Four Corners that he was seeking to remove Ms Rinehart as trustee and examine the history of the trust, control of which has fuelled an inter-generational feud.
Mr Hancock and two of his sisters have accused their mother of serious misconduct in the administration of the trust, but their claim is strongly denied by Ms Rinehart.
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The trust was established by Ms Rinehart's father, Lang Hancock, with Ms Rinehart as trustee and her four children as beneficiaries, and it was to be opened to the children when the youngest turned 25.
Last year, the children were to receive their share of the trust but, in a NSW Supreme Court hearing, it was revealed that Ms Rinehart had extended her trusteeship for another 57 years.


Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nat...st-in-court-20120625-20yn6.html#ixzz1ynztaL5B

 

[sptrawler]

Kids have been so shafted that they are now forced to seek independent help to try secure their birthright.

Birthright they sound like a bunch of spoilt little rich kids. Lang was a dick for putting them in the will.

 

[banco]

Birthright they sound like a bunch of spoilt little rich kids. Lang was a dick for putting them in the will.

I seem to recall a certain spoiled rich kid fighting over daddy's inheritance with her father's 3rd wife in the '90's.

 

[numbercruncher]

Birthright they sound like a bunch of spoilt little rich kids. Lang was a dick for putting them in the will.

Your love for your idol Gina runs deeper than the deepest ocean.

Could all of these people be wrong ?

Do you have proof that the children are spoilt kids ? Do you have proof that Lang was a dick ? Its more like Lang was a smart man who left his now adult Grandchildren a substantial inheritence that hasnt been destributed as he wished.