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The National Portrait Gallery on Friday told Senate estimates that Gina Rinehart had gifted the artwork, following the controversy around a different portrait of the mining magnate by Vincent Namatjira, which hangs in the National Gallery of Australia.

But now theres a third: stones. Regency Mortuary in Sun City is one of only two local partners of Parting Stone, a Santa Fe, New Mexico, company that takes the ashes of deceased people and pets and transforms them into smooth stones. (The other is Accu-Care Cremation & Funerals in Phoenix.) “I don’t think that saying it’s revolutionary oversells it at all,” says Regencys funeral director, John Perkes. “I was literally raised in a funeral home — I started working when I was 12 �...