Australia richest person, Gina Rinehart, will give away millions of dollars a year to miners and other workers in annual random prize draws to mark her birthday and Christmas celebrations.
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has started randomly handing out $100,000 prizes to Hancock Prospecting workers as part of a multimillion-dollar giveaway that is part of celebrations to mark her 69th birthday on Thursday.
The 41 prizes would represent one for each year Mrs Rinehart has worked at Hancock Prospecting, first under her father Lang Hancock and, since his death in 1992, as the private company’s executive chairman.Since taking the reins, she has taken what was essentially a bankrupt estate and built it intoHancock Prospecting declined to comment on any birthday giveaway or to confirm that it would become an annual event.
“It was pretty insane being in the room, and she kept saying the prize money came ‘after nasty tax’,” said one worker who asked not to be named.Similar raffles for other arms of the Hancock empire led to about a further 20 prizes of $100,000 being handed out before Christmas. It is unclear if the number of birthday prizes handed out will increase each year in keeping with the length of time she has served at Hancock Prospecting, or remain fixed at $100,000.
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