New documents revealing how Gina Rinehart sought to influence the National Gallery of Australia should ring alarm bells.
New documents revealing how Gina Rinehart – the nation’s richest person – used personal, political and business connections to demand a “disrespectful” portrait by award-winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira be taken down should ring alarm bells for all Australians.released following a freedom-of-information request by reporters Linda Morris and Eryk Bagshaw
Those friends included Olympic swimmers, a female entrepreneur and a patron of the arts. The entrepreneur, whose name is redacted in the documents, said Rinehart was an “inspiring woman” whose “leadership had propelled her to great success”. At least three complainants wrote in near exact terms that they and thousands of others would not be where they were today if not for Rinehart’s generous contributions out of the “kindness of her heart”.
The contents of Rinehart’s original complaint have not been released, and all but one name of the complainants has been withheld, but they include elite Australian swimmers competing at the Olympics.Rinehart may well be a generous benefactor and a successful business figure. But she is no match for the principle that the National Gallery of Australia must be free from undue influence over its creative output.
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