Talking of the extraordinarily wealthy, the annual Australian rich list, compiled by BRW magazine and released in May, proved what we have known for some time - mining now trumps the media as the way to make money in Australia.

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According to BRW, a weekly business magazine, Gina Rinehart became the richest woman in Australia in 2010, the richest person in Australia in 2011, and the richest woman in the world in 2012, with an estimated net worth of nearly thirty billion dollars.

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