Gina Rinehart tells summit to devote ‘15 minutes each day to spread the mining message’

In a speech to the Queensland Resources Council, billionaire mining magnate says more mines are the solution to country’s economic woes

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Australia’s richest woman has a two-word solution for Australia’s economic pressures: more mines.

Gina Rinehart, who is worth an estimated $38bn thanks to her mining interests, used a speech to the Queensland Resources Council earlier this week to push for an end to the regulation and green tape she said was strangling the mining sector.

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