Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, is back in the news for doubling her personal fortune to more than $20 billion last week — a move that brings her closer to becoming the world’s wealthiest woman.
But Rinehart, who hates the attention her fast-growing wealth has garnered, isn’t your usual, polished billionaire (a title she has only held for six years).
She’s a mining heiress from deep in Australia’s outback, and many of her economic views are as far removed from the rest of the country as she is.
