Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart sent a direct message to critics of President-elect Donald Trump during a trip to London.
Ms. Rinehart was seen carrying a silver tote bag emblazoned with the words “Trump, Truth” as she headed to her hotel on Sunday.
The sparkly bag contrasted with the rest of the 70-year-old’s black ensemble, which she accessorized with a pair of red Valentino Soul sunglasses, worth more than $1,000, and pearl accessories.
Ms Rinehart, who is Australia’s richest person with an estimated net worth of more than $30 billion, is a known Trump supporter.
The Australian billionaire made headlines last month when she was seen rubbing shoulders with Trump’s daughter while mingling with friends and supporters of the US Republican presidential candidate at his election party at Mar-A-Lago.
A beaming Mrs. Rinehart posed with Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s fourth daughter, at the purple-lit soirée held at her sprawling family home in Florida.
Mrs. Rinehart sported a wide-brimmed cattleman’s hat and proudly held a sign hanging from her shoulders quoting Trump’s pro-mining mantra: “drill, drill.”
The billionaire mining magnate was sitting with socialite founder of the pro-Trump women’s group the Trumpettes, Toni Holt Kramer.
Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart sent a direct message to critics of President-elect Donald Trump during a trip to London.
Ms. Rinehart has been a strong supporter of the president-elect and attended his election party at Mar-A-Lago last month.
Mrs Kramer boasted that she was sitting with “Australia’s biggest celebrity”.
“Gina Rinehart is here and she looks phenomenal in her Western Australian hat,” he told 7News.
‘And Teena McQueen is here, so we’ve got all the very important people from Australia who love their country.
‘We are sitting together, we have all been friends for seven or eight years. I would say that Gina is to Australia what President Trump is to the United States: she just wants to see something good for her country.
‘She wants to see everything that would make her country better and better.
“And she is the most devoted woman I know and always has been since the day I met her.”
Ms Rinehart’s bold political and fashion statement comes just two weeks after the Albanese government rejected her initiative to create a Trump-inspired unit to reduce government waste in Australia.
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However, appearing on Sunrise, federal Housing Minister Clare O’Neil said ordinary Australians should feel “a shudder when we see a couple of billionaires talking about efficiencies in government services”.
“What this really means for viewers is drastic cuts to essential services like health, education and other services that we ordinary Australians depend on,” Ms O’Neil told Nat Barr on his Sunrise show.
Ms. Rinehart completed her ensemble with a pair of red Valentino Soul sunglasses, valued at over $1,000, and pearl accessories.
Ms Rinehart, who became Australia’s richest person with an estimated net worth of more than $30 billion after inheriting her father’s mining business, is a staunch Trump supporter.
‘This has no relevance to Australia.
‘The government does some incredibly important things. “It looks after our sick children in hospital, educates our children and pays for the care of elderly Australians,” Ms O’Neil responded.
“These are abstract things for billionaires who can pay their own way, but for ordinary people, they are meaningful and important things in their lives.”
His statement followed a report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics which stated that 26,000 public servants had been added to the bureaucracy since the Albanese government came to power in 2022.
With more than half of that increase coming from new jobs in Canberra, the wage bill had soared by 23 per cent in the national capital.
Overall public sector salaries rose to $37 billion a year, up from $32.5 billion in June 2022, with a total workforce of 365,400 people.
The report says 15,100 jobs were added in the Commonwealth public service in 2023-24 after 11,000 jobs were created in the first year of the Albanian government.