Just over a year ago, Anthony Albanese and his fiancée Jodie Haydon were treated to a sumptuous three-course meal of butternut squash soup, short ribs and chocolate mousse cake at state dinner with Joe and Jill Biden in the White House.

Gina Rinehart, the Australian mining dynamo, was one of the lucky Mar-a-Lago members dining on sushi, beef wellington and vodka rigatoni with Donald Trump and his entourage on Election Night.

Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, says Donald Trump’s presidency will make America safer when he fixes the “nightmare” border and ensures the country is more prosperous.

Australia’s richest person joined Trump and Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on election night. Rinehart calls the US border a ‘nightmare’ and says Trump will make the country safer.

WA mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has declared Donald Trump’s election victory the “greatest comeback since 1892” after joining the Republican victory party at his Mar-a-lago residence in West Palm Beach.

Allentown, Pennsylvania | Donald Trump on Wednesday delivered one of the greatest comebacks in American politics to become the country’s 47th president, a feat that makes him only the second candidate to win two non-consecutive elections and the first convicted criminal to sit in the Oval Office.

Australia’s richest person and vocal Donald Trump supporter Gina Rinehart has been spotted rubbing shoulder’s at the incumbent president’s election day event.

One woman was weeping, people were hugging, some dancing to the periodic bursts of Trump’s trademark favourite by YMCA over the sound system; most were whooping and cheering.

The mining billionaire attended Donald Trump’s Florida party after rumours she’s been in the Palm Beach real estate market.

Across town in Palm Beach proper, Trump waited at home, the Mar-a-Lago resort, with his “very special people” – among them Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, UFC boss Dana White and Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart. Also present was former Liberal Party vice president Teena McQueen, who told this masthead of the “electric” atmosphere inside. “Unbelievable – best night of my life,” she said, adding facetiously: “If he wins Virginia, it’s because Mrs Rinehart and I went to a rally in Salem.”

An iconic Northcliffe dairy has been recognised for having one of the best products in the nation.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has blasted Australia’s poor defences and questioned whether the AUKUS security pact is enough to fortify the nation against threats, calling for investment in drones, smart sea mines and an Israel-style “iron dome”.