Australia’s richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, has been revealed as a key funder of the right wing think tank the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) – a major pusher of climate science denial.
The payments suggest that more than a third of the IPA’s income in 2016 and 2017 was from HPPL – majority-owned privately by Gina Rinehart.
According to Forbes, Rinehart was the seventh richest woman in the world in 2017 and Australia’s richest person, with current wealth estimated to be $17.6 billion.
The IPA has long pushed climate science denialism - publishing books and sponsoring speaking tours of prominent climate science denialists.
Professor Ian Plimer, another prominent geologist who rejects climate change science, sits on the board of HPPL subsidiary Roy Hill Holdings.
Climate scientists who reviewed the paper, which had appeared in a journal, described the work as “junk science”.
Main image: A screengrab of a video showing Gina Rinehart receiving an IPA “Free Enterprise Leader Award” in 2013. »
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