Gina Rinehart, an Australian worth $30 billion and an avid Donald Trump supporter, has changed Alberta’s politics in her relentless pursuit of mined coal.
The saga offers more evidence on how the wealthy exercise their raw financial power to engineer democracy for their own economic benefit. Political scientists call the oversized influence of billionaires “the wealthification” of politics. Witness how billionaires dominated the U.S. presidential election.
In the last three years she has repeatedly sued the Alberta and federal governments and challenged regulatory processes. And even though three separate courts have found her arguments baseless and without merit, she continues to sue.
Two outstanding lawsuits, for example, contend the Alberta government owes her billions because her mining plans were stymied. Overwhelming public opposition to coal mining forced the government to impose a coal moratorium in the Rockies to protect critical watersheds.
Outside of provincial and federal courts, Rinehart has hired two lobby firms with ties to the United Conservative Party government to actively promote her open-pit mining project.
When it became clear that citizens living in the municipal district of Ranchland, where Rinehart wants to build the mega-mine, were overwhelmingly opposed to its construction, Rinehart actively participated in a dubious referendum sanctioned by Smith in the neighbouring community of Crowsnest Pass. Rinehart’s company even drove voters to the polls.
I’m just saying, nobody in Australia will shed a tear if she stopped existing.
May she be blessed by Saint Luigi
We’d fucking celebrate! Fuck that stupid mole cunt.
Mole? Does she look like a mole, have a mole, is it cause she’s super I to mining coal, is it a common Aussie insult that my cousin neglected to call me?
Haha, yeah this is Aussie slang, originally it was used too describe slutty woman I guess, but it’s evolved well beyond that, as we are often pro slutty lady folk here. I would say it’s become a rather versatile word that can have a bunch of implied meanings depending on tone and context, but generally anything used to describe anything undesirable, or undesirable action.
Perfect, fuckin love it. You Aussies are good cunts, very creative with your insults. As a form of cultural exchange, I’ll tell you my personal favourite Canadian insult: Douche-canoe.
“Eh, bud, you’re being a fucking douche-canoe, why don’t you just get fucked eh?”
As an Australian we are so sorry, I had no idea her fuckery had spread that far. At least you can be fairly certain her own kids will probably piss on her grave
I’ve been to her house.