Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart has issued a direct message to critics of president-elect Donald Trump during an outing in London.
Ms Rinehart was spotted carrying a silver clutch emblazoned with the words ‘Trump, Truth’ while heading into her hotel on Sunday.
The bright purse was in contrast with the rest of the 70-year-old’s black outfit, which she completed with a pair of red Valentino Soul sunglasses, worth over $1,000, and pearl accessories.
Ms Rinehart, who became Australia’s richest person with an estimated net worth of more than $30billion after inheriting her father’s mining business, is a known supporter of Mr Trump.
The Australian billionaire made headlines last month when she was spotted rubbing shoulders with Mr Trump’s daughter as she mingled with friends and supporters of the US Republican presidential nominee at his election party at Mar-A-Lago.
A beaming Ms Rinehart posed with Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s fourth child, at the purple-lit soirée held at his sprawling family home in Florida.
Ms Rinehart sported a wide-brimmed stockman’s hat and proudly held a sign hanging from her shoulders quoting Mr Trump’s pro-mining mantra, ‘drill, baby drill’.
The billionaire mining magnate was seated with the socialite founder of pro-Trump women’s supporter group the Trumpettes, Toni Holt Kramer.
Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart has issued a direct message to critics of president-elect Donald Trump during an outing in London
Ms Rinehart has been a vocal supporter of the president-elect and last month attended his election party at Mar-A-Lago
Ms Kramer boasted that she was sitting with ‘Australia’s biggest celebrity’.
‘Gina Rinehart is here and she looks phenomenal in her Western Australian hat,’ she told 7News.
‘And Teena McQueen is here so we’ve got all of Australia’s very very important people who love your country.
‘We’re sitting together, we’re all been friends for seven or eight years. I would say Gina is to Australia what President Trump is to America, she wants to see nothing but good for your country.
‘She wants to see everything that would make your country better and better and better.
‘And she’s the most devoted woman I know and always has been from the day that I met her.’
Ms Rinehart’s bold fashion and political statement comes just shy of two weeks after the Albanese government rejected her push for a Trump-inspired unit to cut government waste in Australia.
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk will head the new Department of Government Efficiency for the incoming Trump administration, which Ms Rinehart said ‘was much needed in Australia too’.
However, appearing on the Sunrise program, federal minister for Housing Clare O’Neil said ordinary Aussies should get a ‘chill up their spine when we see a couple of billionaires getting to talk about efficiencies in government services’.
‘What that really translates to for your viewers is drastic cuts to essential services like health, education, and other services that we ordinary Australians rely on,’ Ms O’Neil told Nat Barr on her Sunrise show.
Rinehart completed her outfit with a pair of red Valentino Soul sunglasses, worth over $1,000, and pearl accessories
Rinehart, who became Australia’s richest person with an estimated net worth of over $30billion after inheriting her father’s mining business, is a vocal supporter of Trump
‘This has no relevance to Australia.
‘The government does some incredibly important things. It looks after our sick children in hospital, it educates our children, it pays for aged care for Australians,’ Ms O’Neil replied.
‘These are abstract things to billionaires who can pay their own way, but for ordinary people, these are meaningful and important things in their lives.’
Her statement followed a report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics which stated 26,000 public servants had been added to the bureaucracy since the Albanese Government took power in 2022.
With more than half that increase being new positions in Canberra the wage bill had spiked by 23 per cent in the national capital.
Overall public sector wages were $37billion a year, which was up from $32.5billion in June 2022, with a total workforce of 365,400.
The report said 15,100 commonwealth public service jobs were added in 2023-24 after 11,000 job were created in the first year of the Albanese government.
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