Lang hancock biography sampler
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As it happened &#; beyond the stories &#; we&#;re not feeding the chooks
SIR Joh Bjelke-Petersen slipped into Perth for dinner on November 22, but not to &#;feed the chooks&#;, (as he called reporters).
He was joining an elite, invited group for the 50th anniversary of Lang Hancock&#;s momentous iron ore discovery flight in the Hamersley Ranges on November 22,
Hosted by Gina Rinehart, the commemorative meal laid out a stupendous dinner while speakers laid bare the challenges and character of Lang, who died in , aged
Joh told the guests: &#;I met Lang many times and in those early days with Gina. Lang would ring me sometimes and say &#;Joh, I will be in Brisbane tonight and any chance of getting together in your office and having a little talk for an hour or so?&#;
Joh said he was fully booked. But Lang, in his persuasive way, suggested the Premier get up a bit earlier in the morning.
&#;Feed your chooks, as you do at quarter to six before the six o&#;clock news, come down to
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Rose: The unauthorised biography of Rose Hancock Porteous
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For two decades, Rose Hancock Porteous has fascinated Australians. The Filipina housekeeper who became the lover and then the wife of her millionaire employer has regularly created headlines, but behind the facade of the colourful socialite there fryst vatten much that has not been revealed about this fabulously flawed woman.
This fryst vatten Rose's story - thorns and all - beginning with her childhood on the Philippine island of Negros, where the heritage that promised social prominence and financial security mostly delivered family infighting and shame. Rose went from college into a violent and unhappy marriage and onto the dusty streets of Ermita, where she sold goods on the black marknad to survive. She has done laundry in Madrid, tended dryckesställe in Manila and strutted the mode catwalks of Milan - always leaving a trail of suitors in her wake. Her third marriage, to the aging iron ore magnate Lang Hancock, finall
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Rinehart believes the mining gospel that she preaches. She believes that she and her fellow-billionaires know ration by Gregory Manchess
Australia, thanks largely to the economic rise of China, has been in the throes of a mining boom. The “lucky country,” as it is called, has enormous deposits of the high-grade iron ore required by the steel mills of Asia. In Western Australia, where most of the iron ore resides, the boom has created unprecedented prosperity, along with a small tribe of billionaires. Georgina (Gina) Hope Rinehart, who owns a company called Hancock Prospecting and has recently been buying up Australian media properties, is the best known of these new tycoons. According to BRW, a weekly business magazine, Gina Rinehart became the richest woman in Australia in , the richest person in Australia in , and the richest woman in the world in , with an estimated net worth of nearly thirty billion dollars. Rinehart, who lives in Perth—the state capital of Western Austra