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Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 3

Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

The Guardian

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 β€’ 1.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We unpack the bitter rivalries, court battles and family conflicts behind the Hancock fortune, and consider a fundamental question: is Rinehart a mining heiress or is she a self-made mining magnate? We look at her crowning achievement to date in her time at the helm of Hancock Prospecting – owning and operating her own iron mine at Roy Hill, something her father was never able to do

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:09.6

We can't imagine anything $40 billion?

0:13.4

I mean, you'd have to give a million dollars away every day of your life to last.

0:20.4

How long was it last?

0:24.1

When you have so much money, it must be difficult to know how to behave in the real world

0:30.9

with people who can't imagine having that much money.

0:34.2

I think it's impossible.

0:36.2

I think it would be impossible.

0:38.6

But you said she's not normal?

0:41.1

No.

0:42.3

What do you mean by that?

0:44.0

Well, she doesn't wash up, wipe up.

0:46.6

She just lives in a castle and a bucket full of money.

0:51.3

And it's hard to be normal like that.

0:53.6

It's hard to know who likes

0:54.8

her because she's you, because she's who she is, who she is, who likes it because they want,

0:59.0

I mean, the number of requests she gets for money. And unlike most people, Gina's a lot more

1:05.0

highest judge of that than I am. Gina Reinhart has been Australia's richest person for 11 of the last 15 years.

1:14.6

This is now her sixth year in a row, an unbroken streak that shows no signs have been under threat.

1:20.7

As long as the iron keeps flowing, Gina and her company, Hancock prospecting,

1:24.6

will continue their bonanza in the Pilbara.

1:32.3

If she'd done what Lane had done, it would still be in the ground. From Guardian Australia, I'm Sarah Martin and this is Gina, a podcast series about Gina Reinhart

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