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dwazou@lemm.ee to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish ·
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Billionaire Gina Rinehart criticises ‘relentless attack’ on former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith

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Billionaire Gina Rinehart criticises ‘relentless attack’ on former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith

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dwazou@lemm.ee to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish ·
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Gina Rinehart criticises ‘relentless attack’ on Ben Roberts-Smith and media ‘gloating’
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Billionaire’s comments come in wake of former SAS soldier losing his appeal against defamation case ruling
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    why are people reporting and posting about that twat

    no one gives a shit what she thinks

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      Whether we like it or not, she is one of the most powerful woman in Australian.

      She controls a significant amount of Australia’s natural ressources. She inherited that tax-free.

      Because of Australia’s Campaign Finance Law, she is allowed to wire massive amounts of money to political parties :

      https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/who-are-the-biggest-donors-to-australias-political-parties/ojow9dhy3

      To move around, the leader of the opposition used her own private jet

      https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/31/peter-dutton-flights-gina-rinehart-jet-albanese-qantas-upgrades-ntwnfb

      So yes, what she thinks is, unfortunately, very important. Not all citizens are equal.

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        Whether we like it or not, she is one of the most powerful woman in Australian.

        No thats just gravity pulling things in around her. thats not power.

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        I disagree.

        During a campaign, ok - her political alignment is relevant in so far as who she’s donating to.

        Otherwise her statements of opinion on political matters are not at all relevant and I don’t see the value in reporting it.

        It might get clicks but does that mean it should be reported?

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        Threw a lot of money into a losing party and paid to ferry around a guy who lost his own seat

        Rich, yes. Influential beyond bought and paid for yes men, clearly not

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      It’s a loss for the guardian to be parroting trumpette’s opinion.

      “Billionaire has a shit take on situation.” isn’t exactly cutting edge journalism.

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        The general public can always use more reminders that billionaires are terrible people who stole their wealth from the people who produced it.

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          Yeah, guardian have been going hard on Gina with that pidcast of theirs as well. Didn’t listen to it but it must have a fair bit of background to ‘her’ fortune in it.

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