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Gina Rinehart – she’s just paid out $1.2m in bonuses to winning swimmers as patron. Yet the ABC tries to humiliate her. How is that fair?

Olympian Dawn Fraser has lashed out at Anthony Albanese, calling him “spineless” and “vile” for not criticising the ABC over a controversial sketch about Gina Rinehart.

Legal action over segment.

Ray Hadley wonders whether ABC chairman Kim Williams would ever cop the same sick vilification his organisation dished out on Gina Rinehart and implores managing director Hugh Marks to “put down his martini” and rein in the national broadcaster’s insolent staff.

Australia’s richest citizen has launched a legal assault on the ABC after a clip vocalising violence against her aired on prime time.

Gina Rinehart has put the ABC and its board on notice for comments made about the mining magnate in an episode of Race Around the World, a show which follows six Australian filmmakers across 10 countries over 100 days.

31 July 2026

Gina Rinehart has launched legal action against the ABC and several senior executives after the national broadcaster refused to apologise or remove a segment which encouraged viewers to sodomise and murder the Hancock Prospecting boss.

That was day six in Glasgow as Australia’s mega pool party became a record Commonwealth Games haul which included three gold medals inside five minutes at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre.

The nation’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, is threatening to sue the ABC’s top bosses, including chairman Kim Williams and managing director Hugh Marks, after they refused to remove a “disgusting” video depicting her being “sodomised and tortured in a manner that would kill her”.

The creator of a Race Around The World short film has issued a formal apology on the ABC’s website saying she did not intend to promote violence.

Friday, 31 July 2026