Gina Rinehart threatens ABC with legal action over Race Around the World program
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart's company, Hancock Prospecting, has threatened legal action against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The dispute stems from a comedy segment that featured crude and offensive remarks about Rinehart.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting says letters have been sent to the ABC that ‘detailed allegations of serious contraventions of multiple Australian criminal and civil laws arising from the ABC’s publication and continued publication of the material’. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting says letters have been sent to the ABC that ‘detailed allegations of serious contraventions of multiple Australian criminal and civil laws arising from the ABC’s publication and continued publication of the material’. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP Australian Broadcasting Corporation Gina Rinehart threatens ABC with legal action over Race Around the World program Hancock Prospecting says chair Kim Williams among those ‘on notice’ for failing to remove program that joked about turning Rinehart’s insides into a sausage roll
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