She has a sense of the obvious doesn't she?

She loves to tell us that we have "other advantages" - but fail to list them.

Let me start the list Ms Gillard

Australian Carbon Tax - that's the advantage you've given the African countries.

Not only does the Australian companies have to compete against $2/day cost advantage. They will now have to compete with the added carbon tax

"The world's biggest troll", Cruella de Vil and a Bond villain. That's one pundit's unflattering portrait of Gina Rinehart, amid largely scathing international coverage of her latest speech.

Much of the overseas coverage of Mrs Rinehart's speech to the Sydney Mining Club, posted on YouTube, has been scathing and sarcastic, with the Atlantic Wire, a sister website to The Atlantic magazine, calling her the "world's biggest troll".

    Rinehart knows what it means to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. She inherited a fortune now estimated to be worth about $18 billion. That's a heavy burden to bear

"Rinehart, an Australian, was (we think) trying to make a point about wages and bettering Australia's mining industry," the article said.

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"Why she chose to say that Australians should look at the sad state of African miners making less than $2 per day is beyond us."
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The part of Mrs Rinehart's speech that drew the widespread criticism was: "The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business.

"Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future."

The Atlantic Wire article also listed what is known about Mrs Rinehart, examining where her wealth came from, her media interests and politicians' comments about her.

"Essentially all those factors make Rinehart ... that perfect mix of Bond villain, Marie Antoinette and Cruella de Vil - the kind of stinking rich and socially ham-fisted character that's so easy to hate.

"And don't think for second that the politicians and news agencies giving her air time aren't enjoying every second of it."

The BBC estimated that, while Mrs Rinehart was talking about pay rates for African workers, she was earning $600 a second.

The Los Angeles Times reported Mrs Rinehart was "back with some more helpful advice" a week after she told poor Australians to work harder and drink and smoke less.

"Yep, it's getting harder and harder to be a job creator," the article said.

"Rinehart knows what it means to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. She inherited a fortune now estimated to be worth about $18 billion. That's a heavy burden to bear."

Newser covered Mrs Rinehart's speech under the headline "World's Richest Woman's New Idea: Wages of $2 a Day".

"Gina Rinehart, that charming Australian billionaire who last week advised the world's 'jealous' poor to stop whining and drinking so much, is back with more priceless advice.

"The world's richest woman, who amassed her family fortune via iron-ore mining, thinks Australia's struggling mining industry should look to Africa for inspiration."

Mrs Rinehart's speech was widely covered by outlets including The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, Britain's Daily Mail and America's National Public Radio.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/worlds-media-pan-rineharts-2-a-day-african-miner-...

Maqqa wrote on Sep 5^th, 2012 at 11:52am:


The fact that both Gillard and Swan have blatantly ignored is that Rinehart never once said in her speech that she thought Australia should lower wages to $2. She basically said this: in a global marketplace, it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to mine in Australia when wages in Africa are so low compared to Australia and that the added burden of more taxes only makes investment in Australia less attractive, not more. This government is making Australia far less competitive internationally through its incompetent economic policies.

Yes its just us horrible LEFTIES taking the piss out of this "women"

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