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Judging by the big bright hooks, breezy melodies, and guitar riffs that rev like top down, joy riding convertibles, it would be easy to peg a number of the cuts from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s latest album as contenders for “song of the summer.”

A lawyer for Mrs Rineharts children says there is clear evidence that mining licences were unlawfully transferred to Hancock Prospecting after her father Lang Hancock died in 1992.

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart engaged in a “calculated and deliberate fraud” of her own children by transferring away from them the rights to valuable mining tenements in the 1990s, lawyers have claimed.

As Gina Rinehart gave her keynote speech on Monday, a court heard the mining magnate devised an egregious scheme to defraud her children, of billions of dollars in iron ore riches.

Mining pioneer Lang Hancock threatened to remove his daughter from the empire for “disloyalty” over her alleged behaviour towards his new wife, the court heard.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart committed fraud with iron ore mining tenements now worth billions of dollars, a lawyer for her two eldest children told a court

Mining pioneer Lang Hancock threatened to remove his daughter from the empire for “disloyalty” over her alleged behaviour towards his new wife, the court heard.

Australias richest person, Gina Rinehart, devised an "egregious" seven-step scheme to defraud her children...

Pilbara icon Lang Hancock sold off valuable mining tenements and stripped his own company of cash to buy his wife Rose Porteous luxury cars, jewellery and a private jet, lawyers claim.

Sydney Barrister Noel Hutley SC detailed the errors Mr Hancock made in his later life - all in a bid to placate his second wife Rose Porteous - in the West Australian Supreme Court on Friday.