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Mining pioneer Lang Hancock attempted to sever his ties with daughter Gina Rinehart in the years before he ...

RAKIB EHSAN: Hussein Alinzi, 59, (pictured) was let off with a suspended prison sentence and a pathetic programme of rehabilitation activity after he battered his 15-year-old daughter unconscious.

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.

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.

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.

Scottish nationalists must rue the day Alex Salmond resigned.

Reclusive mining heiress Angela Bennett could be forced to explain her absence in the multibillion-dollar mining royalties battle being waged by her pioneer father’s company.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has attempted to deliver a fatal blow in the battle to guard its iron ore riches, unearthing a 34-year-old memo showing a rival mining dynasty knew it had no right to its royalties.

Gina Rinehart’s lawyers have told a civil trial a newly found memo shows disputed assets belonged solely to Hancock Prospecting.

The magnate sought a “total cleanup package division of Hancock and Wright so as not to leave grey areas for our respective heirs to argue about”.