News about Rose Porteous

In the state's Supreme Court, lawyers for the Anglo-Australian company are fighting allegations that have accrued from funds earned as far back as the 1950s and 1960s, including claims worth billions of dollars in iron ore royalties that have flowed from discoveries dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. The tense debate in the Pilbara region centers on four open pit iron mines owned by Rio's Hammersley Iron subsidiary and Hancock Prospecting, which have been in partnership since 2005.

A lawyer for mining pioneer Lang Hancock has told a judge that he left the company in such a precarious situation when he died, and that he almost sent it bankrupt. Mr Hancock's later life, in the effort to placate his second wife Rose Porteous, in the West Australian Supreme Court, Barrister Noel Hutley SC delved into the 'errors' he made in his later years. In increasingly pointed letters exchanges between the late magnate and his daughter Gina Rinehart, who now controls the family company, several of the errors were left bare.

Academics and politicians are rallying behind Indigenous netballer Donnell Wallam's decision not to wear the name of the mining company Hancock Prospecting because of a infamous television interview by the company's founder Lang Hancock (pictured top right with wife Rose Porteous), where he recommended sterilising 'half-caste' Aboriginals who do not 'accept' white 'civilisation.' Gina Rinehart, Hancock's heir (pictured at bottom right), responded by ending a $15 million sponsorship contract that has left netball in a precarious financial condition. Senator Jacinta Price has differed from other Indigenous peoples in that netball administrators must 'grow a spine' and stand up to the'selfish woke bullies.'

On her husband's exclusive real estate portal, one of Australia's most popular socialites has advertised her palatial neo-classical home in western Perth, aiming to attract bids up to $5.75 million. Rose Porteous (inset) has decided to move to Nedlands after selling a number of houses, including the historically styled 17-bedroom mansion she built with her former husband, mining magnate Lang Hancock. Ms Porteous was instrumental in a court fight involving Mr Hancock's estate and his daughter Gina Rinehart.