Gina Rinehart tells summit to devote ‘15 minutes each day to spread the mining message’

Billionaire Gina Rinehart said this week the resources industry needed to remind people ‘that without our critical resources industries, our living standards cannot be maintained, indeed, nor can our defence’. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Australia’s richest woman has a two-word solution for Australia’s economic pressures: more mines.

Gina Rinehart, who is worth an estimated $38bn thanks to her mining interests, used a speech to the Queensland Resources Council earlier this week to push for an end to the regulation and green tape she said was strangling the mining sector.