Mining magnate accepts Western Australian of the Year award hours after skin cancer removal

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.

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Western Australian of the Year Gina Rinehart: The single mum who believed in herself and became an Aussie icon

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.

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PROUD GINA GETS OUR TOP GONG

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.”

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Australia’s top businesswoman Gina Rinehart named Western Australian of the 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. 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.

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TALENT POOL

This talented group of swimmers in their 30s are veterans in a sport that doesn’t encourage longevity. Despite that, these five are determined to shoot for glory again at next year’s Paris Olympics Gold has always been the colour that Australian swimmers aspire to. The universal symbol of sporting success, it’s also the standard Australia’s swimmers accept when they first make the national team.

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Mogul and Modi talk

WA mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi during his Australian visit, days after it was revealed her company is looking at a lithium partnership with India’s biggest iron ore miner.'”It was a very interesting and exciting meeting with PM Modi, who I have met with several times in the past, in both Australia and New Delhi,” she said. “The growth recently has been huge, the growth in the future is going to be huge.

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‘From red tape to red carpet’

In this week’s issue, we are delighted to hear from Gina Rinehart on the importance of mining to not only our national economy but also to our geopolitical survival. Fresh from almost single-handedly financing federal Labor’s so-called budget ‘surplus’, Ms Rinehart is correct to point out the long-term damage we are doing to this nation by constantly demonising mining as ‘evil’ and ‘dirty’. With India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi currently visiting these shores – and, it has to be said, to the rapturous delight of Australia’s much-valued Indian diaspora – there couldn’t be a better time for Ms Rinehart’s warnings.

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