‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia

Sarah Martin - TheGuardian - 30/03
Australia’s richest person has close ties with the US president’s ‘Trumpettes’ and has even styled her company headquarters with Maga-inspired designs
Gina Rinehart has long had strong views on government overreach and she is now pushing for a Maga-like crusade in Australia. Illustration: Guardian Design
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Gina Rinehart has long had strong views on government overreach and she is now pushing for a Maga-like crusade in Australia. Illustration: Guardian Design

‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia

Australia’s richest person has close ties with the US president’s ‘Trumpettes’ and has even styled her company headquarters with Maga-inspired designs

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The founder of a key support group for the US president has praised Gina Rinehart as a “female Donald Trump” and backed a push by the mining magnate to bring Trump’s policy ideas to Australia.

Toni Holt Kramer, the president and founder of The Trumpettes USA, told Guardian Australia she had been friends with Rinehart since the first Trump presidency in 2016, describing her as an “extremely brilliant woman”.

She has also thrown her support behind Rinehart to be a future Australian ambassador to Washington under a Dutton government.

“She’s an incredible woman … She does so much good. I’m so impressed with her through the years. To me, she’s sort of like a female Donald Trump,” Holt Kramer said of Australia’s richest person.

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