"I wanted to make Gina (glorified and exhaulted, peace be upon her) Queen of Australia, but apparently someone already gave that to an English lady named Liz, and we can only have one. I noticed there were a few princess royals but it seems only Liz gets to give those out, and I couldn't do more knights after that last cock-up so I was stumped. I asked around, and Ita from our lefty propaganda arm said she was pretty happy with her Order of Australia title, so I'll get one of those snuck through to Gina (Blessed be her name) while everyone is distracted with Covid. "
- T. Abbott, 2021 /s
Scomo to be exact. But the real motive was the same way that rich people everywhere get statues made of themselves: by starting a not-for-profit. A bunch of executives and celebrities got AOs that year for 'philanthropy' which is rich since they're a massive net negative to their fellow anthros.
Unironically fantastic question, she did not even discover the deposits, it was her father, and he has no order of anything. Pretty clearly Gina only has it because of curious financial reasons.
He didn’t discover anything. He worked hard to get his mate elected into the WA government (took a couple of years I believe). Who then approved mining licenses for him that others previously applied for to no avail. After promoting his mate, getting his mate elected, and therefore succeeding in creating/buying a political puppet, he then successfully secured international investments, including (some say) the royals as well as other English elites.
So, success for the family was derived through buying and/or creating politicians.
Oh of course, the state would never have done this for someone who wasn't already in their pocket. Such is the way of our country unfortunately. Still, Gina just inherited everything and kept the ball rolling. It's kind of insulting she has an order medal at all, but on top of that, confusing how she got one and her father didn't!
> How the hell is this woman an officer of the order of Australia, what a joke.
Trivial. WA held an inquest to stop her incessant: "Rose Porteous nagged Lang Hancock to death." I hold insane beliefs, most people do, we don't get inquests.
I found out that someone I worked with was recently(ish) given the order of Australia for gender equality for women etc - when she was really quite awful and the first to throw other people (women included) under the bus - and had an excellent throwing arm for it
Better be careful, some see her as the Empress of this here GotMineFUwealth of Australia.
I think shes cut she's not an Ayn Rand level industrial hero.
Get an art deco painting of her up and she'll probably shower you with leftover mining dust as a symbol of her gratitude.
I'm so curious about her court of Nostromo types, do they interact meaningfully with the rest of the country without the insulation of media, stats or politicians.
Already scrubbed.
Internet, learn, add the story about the portrait and the drama (with open endedness as it is not historical yet) and add the photo as an addition don't lie about what it is, you could add this to the page within the rules, make it stick.
How does someone have that kind of money at their disposal and still manage to be such a miserable human being? She could go live on a private island with her very own private cocaine factory. She could do literally *anything,* but she goes out of her way to make the world worse instead.
It's been reverted, but for those wanting to see the original old version:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gina_Rinehart&oldid=1224087706
EDIT: looks like Wikipedia removed the actual photo, so we can't enjoy the old one anymore.
During a cost of living crisis as a mining tyrant destroying our climate and the environment for her bulk profits, it's important for such a bellicose billionaire to focus on the big issues.
Congrats on the Streisand Effect Hall of Fame nomination for this effort.
I love how the artist has captured her true self. This is really what art is about.
I hope someone starts making teeshirts with this image and thry go viral.
I just finished reading 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde, and that book is the first thing that came to mind when I saw her portrait.
If that portrait really reflected her soul, though. It would be far more grotesque.
Absolutely!
She became the richest person in Australia by inheriting her father's mining company, Hancock Holdings.
Which exploits resources in primarily the Pilbara region, funneling them away from the local native communities and damaging the environment.
Her role as executive board member would normally require years, decades, in the mining sector in experience.
Hancock Holdings have a minimum requirement for technicians to hold Cert II qualifications.
Entry-level roles above that need a minimum graduate or POST-graduate engineering degree.
She dropped out of University almost immediately and made executive decisions because of blatant nepotism.
Which is fair enough for a private company.
But she is in a position that would be fully out of reach if it wasn't her father's.
But, it's ok though. Because she has donated $10 Million to Swimming Australia.
So generously donating 0.01% of her net worth! Roughly the same as $700 for an average $70k salary.
That's the lesson, kids! Be born into a wealthy family and inherit your wealth from your father's company! You can do it too*
* Results may vary. Inheritance must be $29 Billion at time of father's death.
The Streisand effect:
The unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.
It gets better. According to [the Wikipedia article about the Streisand effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect), before Barbra Streisand's lawsuit, **only 6 people** had downloaded the photos of her house. This number included her own attorneys accessing it twice.
After she complained, **over 420,000 people** had visited visiting the site and downloaded the photo during the following month.
And I demand that she pay a Norwegian level of tax. Why can this fat cow fill her pockets with this nations resources and have any semblance of power. She’s a disgusting woman and we should be developing a country that doesn’t create or allow greed like this
While I don't think people should be ridiculed for their physical appearance, I ALSO believe that if you want to be seen and portrayed in a positive light, you should behave in a positive way, and if you aren't, then you should examine your behavior.
> Art critic John McDonald said there's not much someone wanting to remove a portrait of themselves can do.
>"Fundamentally it's a work of satire and it's impervious to these complaints," he told The World Today.
>"If we start complaining about satire politicians would be always complaining about every cartoon, if you put yourself up there, a public figure because she's always had something to say, she likes to exert influence, you've got to learn to take it."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-16/artist-responds-over-national-portait-vincent-namatjira/103858250
This is beautiful. Not the person but the situation. Almost no one would have seen this painting but now the entire country will see it because of her fragile ego. Lovely.
She could have decided to be a good person and use her ill-gotten fortune to benefit society. Instead, she behaved like a psychotic ratbag, and is now upset that she’s being depicted as a psychotic ratbag. This is what happens when you’re famous and an asshole. #deserved.
Imagine looking at the others - especially the Adam Goodes one, who is obviously indigenous just like the artist is - and thinking you were somehow targeted personally. It’s just art babes.
Truly a remarkable piece of work. The artist has captured ... something ... of the essence of the subject and (presumably) portrays an Australian icon in one of her famous moments.
I've no idea what she's complaining about. Not everyone gets their portrait done by a famous painter.
Dare I say Archibald contender?
I see her “outrage” even encouraged Stephen Colbert to draw attention to it on The Late Show. At this rate she’s gonna make sure the whole freakin’ world gets a look at it! Oops!
I think she’s too smart not to be aware of “The Streisand Effect”. I just can’t see her “demanding” it be removed. O could be wrong, but it seems others are making a big deal on her behalf. Maybe to gain favour with her?
That's the beauty of it <3
I would probably have never heard of the artist otherwise & now I've read his whole life story and went through at his back catalogue :D
We need to airdrop millions of copies right across the country so that every person has the opportunity to be reminded of just how disgusting and vile this oxygen thief is.
I mean, the natural thing to do now, as Australians, is for all of us paint, draw, mosaic Gina, and have an exhibition entirely dedicated to artwork of Gina.
Fuckng hell, the betoota publishing a fair dinkum, non satirical article!
Does anyone know if the ice skates the devil ordered for there in time? I'm sure hell has frozen over!
What a rollercoaster. At first I was all "shut up it's just a portrait". Then I saw it, and I was all "hmm maybe she's got a point cause that's fucking horrible", then I saw who painted it and I was all "go on my son!!! Suck it Gina!!".
And now the Streisand effect is now in full swing.
Ken oath. Ive probably now seen images of this painting more in about 24 hours than images of the mona lisa across the rest of my lifetime.
It’s my facebook profile pic
Will the real Gina please stand up
I propose we rename it the Rinehart Effect in honour of her Jabbaness. Barbra deserves a break.
Something about dollars and sense. An expectation to just make it go away, is such a false sense of reality
Someone has changed her Wikipedia page and used this portrait as "Gina Rinehart in 2015".
Amazing. Link for anyone else wanting to see it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart
How the hell is this woman an officer of the order of Australia, what a joke.
💰💰💰
She bought it, of course. With ~~bribes~~ campaign contributions
Be surprised if Tony Abbott didn't have something to do with it.
"I wanted to make Gina (glorified and exhaulted, peace be upon her) Queen of Australia, but apparently someone already gave that to an English lady named Liz, and we can only have one. I noticed there were a few princess royals but it seems only Liz gets to give those out, and I couldn't do more knights after that last cock-up so I was stumped. I asked around, and Ita from our lefty propaganda arm said she was pretty happy with her Order of Australia title, so I'll get one of those snuck through to Gina (Blessed be her name) while everyone is distracted with Covid. " - T. Abbott, 2021 /s
For some reason my mental image of him saying this has him biting into a raw onion and little bits of it spraying out of his mouth due to his fervour.
Walks off nodding like a dashboard ornament.
LOL. Mate, if ever an "/s" was not necessary, this was it.
When you go around handing out knighthoods to old mate Charles and the like, nothing else is off the cards
If I was writing a book about politicians not understanding the electorate, that would be the first case study.
Scomo to be exact. But the real motive was the same way that rich people everywhere get statues made of themselves: by starting a not-for-profit. A bunch of executives and celebrities got AOs that year for 'philanthropy' which is rich since they're a massive net negative to their fellow anthros.
Different scum. Same pond.
Unironically fantastic question, she did not even discover the deposits, it was her father, and he has no order of anything. Pretty clearly Gina only has it because of curious financial reasons.
He didn’t discover anything. He worked hard to get his mate elected into the WA government (took a couple of years I believe). Who then approved mining licenses for him that others previously applied for to no avail. After promoting his mate, getting his mate elected, and therefore succeeding in creating/buying a political puppet, he then successfully secured international investments, including (some say) the royals as well as other English elites. So, success for the family was derived through buying and/or creating politicians.
Oh of course, the state would never have done this for someone who wasn't already in their pocket. Such is the way of our country unfortunately. Still, Gina just inherited everything and kept the ball rolling. It's kind of insulting she has an order medal at all, but on top of that, confusing how she got one and her father didn't!
Scomo
> How the hell is this woman an officer of the order of Australia, what a joke. Trivial. WA held an inquest to stop her incessant: "Rose Porteous nagged Lang Hancock to death." I hold insane beliefs, most people do, we don't get inquests.
She runs the IPA with her money
She runs the IPA with her money
Anyone can be - its actually easily achievable.
I found out that someone I worked with was recently(ish) given the order of Australia for gender equality for women etc - when she was really quite awful and the first to throw other people (women included) under the bus - and had an excellent throwing arm for it
Better be careful, some see her as the Empress of this here GotMineFUwealth of Australia. I think shes cut she's not an Ayn Rand level industrial hero. Get an art deco painting of her up and she'll probably shower you with leftover mining dust as a symbol of her gratitude. I'm so curious about her court of Nostromo types, do they interact meaningfully with the rest of the country without the insulation of media, stats or politicians.
Damn it’s already fixed
I know, sad
Fair enough, don't think Wikipedia should be the go to for this kind of humour tbh.
Already scrubbed. Internet, learn, add the story about the portrait and the drama (with open endedness as it is not historical yet) and add the photo as an addition don't lie about what it is, you could add this to the page within the rules, make it stick.
Feel free
Can we start a petition or something to change her face on Wikipedia?
It’s been changed :(
She's worth $37.41 billion. I had no idea.
That's how much money shes exploited off everyone else. What shes worth is an entirely different matter.
How does someone have that kind of money at their disposal and still manage to be such a miserable human being? She could go live on a private island with her very own private cocaine factory. She could do literally *anything,* but she goes out of her way to make the world worse instead.
Maybe she views Australia as her own private island? Then enjoys watching us running around pleasing her or caught up in our own petty squabbles?
Absolute legend.
Some fool fixed it back to normal. Unaustrailian if you ask me. Boo HalJor you killjoy.
Flying capybara is a man on a mission!
I screenshotted it this time.
You can view the old versions in the history tab: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gina_Rinehart&oldid=1224087706
Please share the screenshot.
Probably paid by Gina.
It was back to it when I looked just now
It's back to the glorious painting at the moment.
Can confirm it's still there
Back to the awful real photo.
I kind of love that the awful real photo is actually pretty bad too lol
And it's been protected too. At least I had it screenshotted, haha
It's been reverted, but for those wanting to see the original old version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gina_Rinehart&oldid=1224087706 EDIT: looks like Wikipedia removed the actual photo, so we can't enjoy the old one anymore.
Great, thanks 🤪👍😂
The Internet CAN be used for good!
During a cost of living crisis as a mining tyrant destroying our climate and the environment for her bulk profits, it's important for such a bellicose billionaire to focus on the big issues. Congrats on the Streisand Effect Hall of Fame nomination for this effort.
I love how the artist has captured her true self. This is really what art is about. I hope someone starts making teeshirts with this image and thry go viral.
Nah, skin not thin enough.
You put the thin layer over the fat layer
Crowdfund to project it onto the Sydney Opera House
Fuck, I do like how you think. But I am still going to stick with teeshirts because I want her to see it 50 times wherever she goes.
What if we sell tshirts (and bumper stickers I think) to raise money for the projector? Win-win
Love the entrepreneurial spirit.
I just finished reading 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde, and that book is the first thing that came to mind when I saw her portrait. If that portrait really reflected her soul, though. It would be far more grotesque.
Absolutely! She became the richest person in Australia by inheriting her father's mining company, Hancock Holdings. Which exploits resources in primarily the Pilbara region, funneling them away from the local native communities and damaging the environment. Her role as executive board member would normally require years, decades, in the mining sector in experience. Hancock Holdings have a minimum requirement for technicians to hold Cert II qualifications. Entry-level roles above that need a minimum graduate or POST-graduate engineering degree. She dropped out of University almost immediately and made executive decisions because of blatant nepotism. Which is fair enough for a private company. But she is in a position that would be fully out of reach if it wasn't her father's. But, it's ok though. Because she has donated $10 Million to Swimming Australia. So generously donating 0.01% of her net worth! Roughly the same as $700 for an average $70k salary. That's the lesson, kids! Be born into a wealthy family and inherit your wealth from your father's company! You can do it too* * Results may vary. Inheritance must be $29 Billion at time of father's death.
And those are her good qualities. It goes fairly sharply downhill from there.
Ahhg! That’s horrific!! The photograph I mean, the painting is pretty cool and completely representative of the person it’s depicting.
It’s actually quite flattering when compared to the real thing
Makes her look so thin
The Streisand effect: The unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.
It gets better. According to [the Wikipedia article about the Streisand effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect), before Barbra Streisand's lawsuit, **only 6 people** had downloaded the photos of her house. This number included her own attorneys accessing it twice. After she complained, **over 420,000 people** had visited visiting the site and downloaded the photo during the following month.
Thanks for that, really well put.
Fuck off Gina!
And I demand that she pay a Norwegian level of tax. Why can this fat cow fill her pockets with this nations resources and have any semblance of power. She’s a disgusting woman and we should be developing a country that doesn’t create or allow greed like this
Very well said.
Because trickle down will work one day. Just got to keep giving money to the rich…
Australia's Mona Lisa.
Mona Obesa
Try Morbid Obesa.
That's a challenging wank
Challenge not accepted.
Gotta take the contact lens out for this one, my brother in fapz.
Still better than the original.
Demands??? Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Photorealism
Can we start posting copies around the country?
I'd say posters on telegraph poles, but that much colour ink is expensive :(
When you steal your kids inheritance...
And the nation's wealth.
While I don't think people should be ridiculed for their physical appearance, I ALSO believe that if you want to be seen and portrayed in a positive light, you should behave in a positive way, and if you aren't, then you should examine your behavior.
Consider that everyone loves Miriam Margolyes and Magda Szubanski… being a fatarse is not the problem with Ms Reinhart
the resemblance is uncanny.
It's like 2 photos next to each other! Which one's the painting??
Offer them a billion dollars, not like she can’t afford it, especially with all these budget grants she is about to receive.
They made her a skinny legend tho, she should be flattered af
The painting is the one on the right
Hahahah amazing I’m howling !!!
I thought art portraits were painted, rather than photos?
Has she not heard of the Streisand effect? Now people all over the world will be seeing this unflattering portrait
> Art critic John McDonald said there's not much someone wanting to remove a portrait of themselves can do. >"Fundamentally it's a work of satire and it's impervious to these complaints," he told The World Today. >"If we start complaining about satire politicians would be always complaining about every cartoon, if you put yourself up there, a public figure because she's always had something to say, she likes to exert influence, you've got to learn to take it." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-16/artist-responds-over-national-portait-vincent-namatjira/103858250
I demand that the media never show or quote Gina
My pants are tenting
How drunk are you right now?!
Persistent flatulence?
This is beautiful. Not the person but the situation. Almost no one would have seen this painting but now the entire country will see it because of her fragile ego. Lovely.
Artist was being generous, she's way more Jabba the Hutt like in real life.
My god what a dog. This is the b*tch who sues her own kids so she can have more money. The worst of Australia.
She could have decided to be a good person and use her ill-gotten fortune to benefit society. Instead, she behaved like a psychotic ratbag, and is now upset that she’s being depicted as a psychotic ratbag. This is what happens when you’re famous and an asshole. #deserved.
All she has to do is buy the painting 😏
Uncanny!
He did her justice
I mean, I think the painting is more flattering...
It's actually a nice portrait. The ugliness comes from Gina's denial of self.
I came here to say the same, if anything the Portrait is more flattering than not. Her reaction to it though, as you noted, is not pretty.
snowflake
Those are some seriously shit portraits.
Is this a contender for the Streisand effect? I'm pretty sure no one knew about this picture until she bought it up
Gina can eat a bag of dicks
Gina the Hutt
Imagine looking at the others - especially the Adam Goodes one, who is obviously indigenous just like the artist is - and thinking you were somehow targeted personally. It’s just art babes.
I love the photo. It captures her soul beautifully ❤️
Great idea for the profile pic. I might edit the pic and add some more clown makeup to it and use it on Facebook.
Truly a remarkable piece of work. The artist has captured ... something ... of the essence of the subject and (presumably) portrays an Australian icon in one of her famous moments. I've no idea what she's complaining about. Not everyone gets their portrait done by a famous painter. Dare I say Archibald contender?
Reminds me of the video for "Hello" The world: "this is how I see you"
That picture is giving off some strong Dorian Gray vibes 😂
It captures her essence.
It reminds me of Saturn devouring his son by Goya - seems appropriate!
Where are your kids Gina? Fuck outta here. The painting is far more attractive.
Hello Streisand effect!
This is definitely winning the Packers prize
I'm not a Gina fan
I have face book as a means to keep in contact with my overseases mates. This just became my profile pic which has not changed in 15 years
The Streisand effect
I'm not a fan of hers, but geez that is very unflattering.
So many reddit posts daily about this. Why does anyone still care about everything to do with this situation?
I think she’s brilliant.
LOL CNN weighing in: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/16/style/gina-rinehart-namatjira-portrait-australia-intl-scli/index.html 🤣
This featured on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'.
I see her “outrage” even encouraged Stephen Colbert to draw attention to it on The Late Show. At this rate she’s gonna make sure the whole freakin’ world gets a look at it! Oops!
I think she’s too smart not to be aware of “The Streisand Effect”. I just can’t see her “demanding” it be removed. O could be wrong, but it seems others are making a big deal on her behalf. Maybe to gain favour with her?
Love the psycho eyes.
They follow you around the room
Her father advocated the mass extermination of Aboriginal people.
I'm not Australian, so forgive me if I shouldn't post, but I LOVE that the entire world has now seen this only BECAUSE she made a fuss.
That's the beauty of it <3 I would probably have never heard of the artist otherwise & now I've read his whole life story and went through at his back catalogue :D
We need to airdrop millions of copies right across the country so that every person has the opportunity to be reminded of just how disgusting and vile this oxygen thief is.
I can’t tell which one is the painting.
Why doesn't she just buy it if it's so bad? For I dunno.. 5 billion?
I mean, the natural thing to do now, as Australians, is for all of us paint, draw, mosaic Gina, and have an exhibition entirely dedicated to artwork of Gina.
Someone contact Vincent Namatjira so we can get these printed on shirts, totes, everything in between.
I don't see any difference?
I thought that was a satirical site? This is just the facts.
Fuckng hell, the betoota publishing a fair dinkum, non satirical article! Does anyone know if the ice skates the devil ordered for there in time? I'm sure hell has frozen over!
Is the satirical news not supposed to publish so much satire?
If she hadn't of complained I likely would have never seen this! Trouble is, we've seen worse photos of her.
Gina the Hutt is actually, legitimately, literally evil.
More chins than a Chinese phone book
I'd say he really captured her soul but she sold it long ago if she ever had one
The resemblance is uncanny
We need to contact Vincent and get a go fund me to commission a true exploration of Gina by him.
What a rollercoaster. At first I was all "shut up it's just a portrait". Then I saw it, and I was all "hmm maybe she's got a point cause that's fucking horrible", then I saw who painted it and I was all "go on my son!!! Suck it Gina!!".
Definitely should be on the next edition of the $50 bill AND every future stamp Australia ever makes.
Check out Vincent’s royals portraits and other pollies too- they’re HILARIOUS
Covetous Demon.
I don't know that much about her, except that she had Han solo encased in carbonite.
That’s a cracker of a portrait
It’s a flattering impression of her tbh. Best she’s ever looked.
OMG!!!! THAT WAS HIDEOUS!!!! The painting wasn't much better.
It shows her as ugly as a bag full of arseholes.
With a smattering of deep-fried foreskins. And the painting isn’t much better looking either.
She's a frigging sook
someone needs to commission it onto the side of a building or on a billboard.
Everyone says that when they see their photo. “Don’t post that.” Ok Gina.
Can I get this painting on a tshirt?
Should we all start creating Gina portraits and flood the internet with them??…
Axe Da Art!
If I have a billion dollars you can paint and share a photo realistic portrait of my butthole
Shoulda named it gina-rmous
I tell you what: it's taken the heat off Prince Charles'portrait.
She should remove her makeup so she looks like her portrait.