26 January 2017 The West Australian

Gina Rinehart is spending Australia Day in outback Australia visiting her newly acquired cattle stations, which were previously part of the Kidman cattle empire.

Mrs Rinehart wrapped up the $365 million acquisition of Kidman in November as part of a joint venture bid by her Hancock Prospecting with Chinese minority partner Shanghai CRED Real Estate.

Collectively the Hancock and Kidman herd will reach 300,000 head, placing [...]

Hello from South Australia, the home of Kidman (and award winning wines)! Since my last newsletter, we have had a busy few months. It has been a year of growth and achievement, with the most recent acquisition of S. Kidman & Co through our joint venture with Shanghai CRED topping off an exciting year for our team.

HISTORIC KIDMAN ACQUISITION

This joint-venture will further expand Hancock’s beef interests geographically across Australia, mitigating weather risks, and [...]

From: “Julie Matheson”

Subject: Cut the Red Tape & Make WA Great.

Date: 9 December 2016 at 9:25:30 AM AWST

Dear Mrs Rinehart,

It was a pleasure to meet you recently in Port Hedland for the 120 year celebrations.  Also thank you for the advanced copy of your embargoed speech.  The implication of you doing that was not lost on me.

After reading your speeches and the most recent one delivered to the National Mining and [...]

From: John Samuel Sent: Friday, 9 December 2016 10:18 AM Subject: Fwd: Cut the Red Tape & Make WA Great.

At the shonky builders meeting on Sunday, the Labor Party told the audience they would have an inquiry that would take 12 months and then issue a report. They would make no comment about SAT. Mark McGowan told an economic business meeting yesterday he was going to move a few departments around or together. Nothing about slashing the [...]

With the completion of the sale of S. Kidman & Co, new principal owner and Chairman, Mrs. Gina Rinehart, made her first visit to the Kidman Adelaide head office. A warm welcome by management staff was followed by an executive briefing, meeting of all staff and morning tea where Mrs. Rinehart was presented with a Kidman branding iron. The visit concluded in the afternoon with Mrs. Rinehart and her executives attending the annual Kidman staff [...]

9 December 2016

Today I have approved a proposal for the sale of S. Kidman & Co. Limited (Kidman) that will increase the level of Australian ownership of the Kidman group of properties.

Under the proposal the largest station in the Kidman group, Anna Creek and its outstation The Peake, will be acquired by the Williams Family, a local farming family with properties that adjoin Anna Creek.

The remainder of the S. Kidman and Co. [...]