Be Gina Rinehart for a start, she seems to have a happy knack of pissing off pinkos:
LIKE many people who write about her, I don’t know Gina Rinehart. But I think I would like to. A person who can stir so much passion and debate would, I think, be stimulating company.
The mining magnate, Australia’s richest person, appears to be someone whose mere name spreads alarm throughout the left. Among the cadres of sometimes complacent and compliant journalists, she is deemed to be a right-wing ogre.
It seems that by taking a substantial shareholding in Fairfax Media (which owns this newspaper as well as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review), this one person is going to tear down society – and the media will be a tool, putty in her hands, to do just that.
The left try to tarnish her because her views are not in accord with their own.
Rinehart’s views, according to people who don’t know her, are on the ”far right of the political spectrum”, as academic and former Greens candidate Clive Hamilton told readers of this page yesterday. Rinehart has been vilified because she appears not to share the left’s concerns about climate change and because she is advocating turning the north of Australia into a special economic zone with tax breaks.
Nothing new in that; it has been advocated for years.
Apparently she knows the businessman Hugh Morgan, who was instrumental in setting up the H. R. Nicholls Society, which advocates workplace relations reform. And Morgan, we are told, is also close to the – shock, horror – Institute of Public Affairs, which supports liberalism and a free market.
It is clear Rinehart must be a fiend, albeit via association.
And some sections of the media are quick to snap up this ”conspiracy”. According to some reports, Rinehart has ”extreme views” on Australia’s economic direction and her raid on the Fairfax share register is about ”wielding influence and gaining political access in the corridors of Canberra”, rather than being the action of an investor.
Watch the video assessment…I’m a fan already…she apparently has a very low opinion of journalists, politicians and believes in small government.
