Sarah Martin

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Sarah Martin

Insiders at Australia’s biggest private company – Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting – have lifted the veil on what they describe as a “bizarre” culture within the organisation that includes annual requests to thank Australia’s richest person. While not compulsory, the thank you messages are encouraged by senior executives and are requested across the company, including from workers at its mine sites.

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Sarah Martin |Joe Koning |Camilla Hannan |Luca Ittimani |Shelley Hepworth |Miles Martignoni

Gina Rinehart’s father Lang Hancockis well known asa pioneer of the iron ore industry in Australia but few realise Hancock started his mining career on a smaller scale and digging for a different substance – blue asbestos. Hancock and his partner started the mining operation at Wittenoom in the 1940s before selling it to another company, CSR, which mined the area for 20 more years.

1 week ago | tavistock-today.co.uk | Sarah Martin

Sixty trolley loads of food were distributed at the Devon and Cornwall Food Action pop-up held in conjunction with Okehampton Rotary at the end of April. Picture: Okehampton Rotary Club. ( )Devon and Cornwall Food Action (DCFA) held a Pop-up Food Hub at the end of April in Okehampton. The event organised by Okehampton Rotary Club attracted a crowd and 60 large trolley loads of surplus food were distributed raising £1,800 in funds for the work of the charity.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sarah Martin |Joe Koning |Shelley Hepworth |Miles Martignoni

In the last episode, we covered historical claims made over the years that Lang Hancock, Gina’s father, had two unacknowledged daughters with separate Indigenous women. Since then, the daughter of Sella Robinson, one of the Indigenous women who claimed to be Hancock’s daughter, has decided to speak publicly for the first time• Listen and subscribe to the Gina Podcast at theguardian.com/gina

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sarah Martin

An Aboriginal woman who believes she is Gina Rinehart’s niece is calling on Australia’s richest person to take a DNA test to prove their family connection. Naydene Robinson, the daughter of Sella Robinson, who claimed she was fathered by Lang Hancock at Mulga Downs station in the 1930s, says she wants to meet Rinehart and “resolve any doubts” about her links to the Hancock family. Sella’s mother worked as a musterer and in domestic labour at Mulga Downs.