Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 1

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Gina Rinehart tops Australia’s rich list, worth almost $40bn. She’s also a climate sceptic, a Trumpette and a litigant – even against her own kids. Her life reads like a script from the TV series Succession. Senior correspondent Sarah Martin has spoken to her critics and her defenders to try and understand who Gina Rinehart really is. In this episode, Martin starts with her childhood, and the enormous influence of her father, Lang Hancock

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:13.8	Oh, it's so hot.
0:17.1	My name is Sarah Martin, and I'm a journalist at Guardian Australia.
0:21.6	I think we're always the sun.
0:23.6	It's right above us. It's kind of hard to tell.
0:25.6	But I think we're on the north side of the station.
0:29.6	And this is me, standing in the middle of the Australian outback on a 43 degree day.
0:36.6	Like in every direction we look there is nothing.
0:39.3	You know there's kind of low spin effects scrub and
0:44.3	I think these are the little snappy gums
0:47.3	and there's lots of flies and there's wet red dirt.
0:52.3	I'm here because I spent
0:54.2	six months looking at the life
0:56.0	of Gina Reinhardt, Australia's richest
0:58.1	person
0:58.6	This is I guess
1:00.3	Gina country
1:01.2	What are your like impressions of it so far
1:04.3	I mean I guess
1:06.5	The colours are so striking
1:08.2	I look out to the left there
1:09.6	It's kind of that deep purple red The colours are so striking. Look out to the left there, look at that, it's kind of that deep purple, red.
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