Gina Rinehart

“If we didn't have a sustainable agriculture industry, who would be paying the then-missing taxes to support our defence, police, roads, airports, elderly, parks, public sporting facilities and much more?”

“We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.”

“Dad correctly said to me, 'Gina, you'll rue the day if I let you take your mother's shares for the benefit of the children.' He was right.”

“I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.”

“I opposed bad policies like any responsible citizen and business can. The carbon tax and the mining tax were both bad policies that, combined, worked to make Australia more over-regulated and less cost competitive.”

“I spent much of my childhood on stations up north, loving that life and with many, many special memories, and so the country holds a very real place in my heart.”

“It really helps me if I think back to what our first families up here went through because, my goodness, they really had very tough times.”