Executive chair of Hancock Prospecting Gina Rinehart (Image: AAP/Richard Wainwright) Back decades ago when it was a real newspaper, the Financial Review would have cast a decidedly sceptical eye over the special pleadings of mining heiress, joke curator and poet Gina Rinehart . These days, it gives her gongs — Business Person of the Year — and a platform for her eccentric, far-right views . The AFR edited the speech she gave in accepting their gong, so who knows what Rinehart actually said, but we doubt that she has been edited maliciously — if anything, quite the opposite. But even with any tidying up, Rinehart’s views are…
