Lawyers for Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart have likened the impact of a helipad atop her mining giant’s bright pink headquarters to boiling an electric kettle, as a high-stakes legal row over the plan gets under way.
Hancock Prospecting subsidiary Ord Street Holdings is demanding a review of City of Perth council’s rejection of a plan to use the roof of its five-storey West Perth office to ferry executives in and out on Rinehart’s $10 million Bell 429 twin-engine helicopter.
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