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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade

Where’s the beef? Gina Rinehart puts past journalism quarrel aside with pies at the Kennedys

Gina Rinehart Fairfax Adam Giles Ariarne Titmus Jessica Fox John Lyons Lisa Davies Mollie OCallaghan News Corp Australia
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting, along with subsidiary S Kidman & Co, was a major sponsor of the Kennedy awards this year.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting, along with subsidiary S Kidman & Co, was a major sponsor of the Kennedy awards this year. Photograph: Reuters

We all know Gina Rinehart loves the Australian Olympic team, and has poured somewhere between $40m and $60m into swimming. But does Australia’s richest person also love journalists?

Apparently she does, judging by her commitment to sign on in 2024 as the major sponsor of the Kennedy awards for outstanding journalism, named after the late Sydney crime reporter Les Kennedy.

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