Thursday 16 April 2026

Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, and Rio Tinto, will have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties to another Western Australian mining family after a decades long legal battle

• US President Donald Trump says the war in the Middle East is close to over
• One of the founders of the gig economy, Uber, is dumping drivers, spending up big on autonomous vehicles 
• The RBA takes to social media to explain economic concepts
• A lucky raffle winner takes home a $2 million Picasso painting

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