Billionaire Gina Rinehart is pulling the strings of the Liberal Party’s next leader Andrew Hastie and it stands out a mile away as Hastie, publicly and deliberately, undermines current Coalition and Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley.
What makes it so obvious is that Hastie is driving the issue of coal and mining which most voters don’t care about, but which is the key issue for billionaire miner, and Hastie’s fellow West Australian, Gina Rinehart.
Andrew Hastie had the opportunity in May to challenge for the Liberal Party leadership but failed to. So why now?
The answer would be that Gina Rinehart has been in Hastie’s ear as Rinehart doesn’t want to wait to regain the power she had when another of her puppets Peter Dutton was leader of the Liberal Party.
The problem for the Liberal Party is that Gina Rinehart’s influence over Peter Dutton cost the Liberal Party seats at the 2025 federal election, with the fake nuclear power policy for example, and will do the same if Andrew Hastie is elected leader.
Below is a video Hastie posted on his Instagram account which is a poorly disguised promotional video for Gina Rinehart’s coal and mining interests. Hastie starts off in the video talking about cars and manufacturing and closes at the end of the video with “make the most of our coal, make the most of gas” which is the real reason for the video.
Andrew Hastie doesn’t have enough support in the Liberal Party to beat Sussan Ley in a ballot for the leadership. But everyone also knows that Sussan Ley can’t win the next election, so at some point there will be a challenge for the Liberal Party leadership.
Hastie is using social media and doing interviews to build his profile, so Liberal MPs can compare Hastie to Ley, and Hastie is hoping some Liberal MPs will switch their support from Ley to him.
There will be a vote for the Liberal Party leadership as soon as Hastie believes he has the numbers, to either win or come close to winning, which could be before or after Christmas.
Liberal Party crooks destroying the Liberal Party
What also makes the Liberal Party leadership battle interesting is that former politicians, who are currently lobbyists, publicly and behind closed doors, try to influence the leadership and what direction the Liberal Party is heading.
These former politicians, who are currently lobbyists, are fraudsters and thieves trying to cash in on their political connections and should be nowhere near government.
One example is Arthur Sinodinos who was given his own column on The Guardian website (6/7/25) to publish an article titled “Sussan Ley must fight to return the Liberal party to the broad church that embodies Australia’s enduring values” which starts off:
Reports of the death of the Liberal party are much exaggerated. There is a mountain to climb but should the incumbents stumble badly, the Coalition is the only viable governing option. In Australia, governments lose office rather than oppositions win.
At the end of the article The Guardian makes the declaration “Arthur Sinodinos is a former Australian ambassador to the US. He is the partner and chair of the Asia Group’s Australia practice and was a former minister for industry, innovation and science”. (Click here to read more)
The declaration The Guardian should have made, but fails to do so is, is on Sinodinos’ Wikipedia page:
On 19 March 2014, Sinodinos stood aside from his role as Assistant Treasurer prior to giving evidence as a witness before New South Wales’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
During the enquiry Sinodinos advised he was unaware of a $74,000 donation made to the Liberal Party by Australian Water Holdings, despite being Deputy chairman on a $200,000 salary. At the time of the payment Sinodinos was also Treasurer of the Liberal Party.
He formally resigned on 19 December 2014 as Assistant Treasurer and was succeeded as Assistant Treasurer by Josh Frydenberg. ICAC eventually made no adverse findings against Sinodinos. (Click here to read more)
Or The Guardian could have used one of its own articles from 2016 for a declaration on Arthur Sinodinos’s background. In 2016 The Guardian published an article titled, “Sinodinos and ICAC: corruption may have been going on under his nose, but ignorance is bliss” which starts off:
“When ICAC finally reports this year, the unimpressive ducking and weaving by Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos is sure to draw criticism” (Click here to read more)
Arthur Sinodinos writing the column is more about him promoting his commercial interests and lobbying business than caring about the Liberal Party.
But Arthur Sinodinos is not alone in putting himself first at the expense of the Liberal Party.
I published an article in January 2025 titled “How Liberal Party’s Joe Hockey steals from the $368 billion AUKUS fraud scam from cradle to grave” which starts off:
Former federal treasurer Joe Hockey is stealing $millions from Australian taxpayers via the $368 billion AUKUS fraud scam and he is trying to control AUKUS from cradle to grave via Liberal Party preselections which should be outlawed.
It became obvious that Joe Hockey was trying to control the AUKUS fraud scam, and almost certainly other scams, from cradle to grave when his name popped up as a supporter for Gisele Kapterian in the Liberal Party preselection battle for Bradfield. (Clock here to read more)
Joe Hockey is on target to go down in history as one of the great Liberal Party grifters.
After I started writing this article the SMH published an article making the argument the Liberal Party need to “expel Scott Morrison and Alan Tudge over robo-debt” before the Liberal Party can be taken seriously again. That is the bottom line to the point I am making above.
For example, every time Scott Morrison is on TV or quoted in the paper the Liberals lose more support because it is a reminder that Morrison has never been held to account for his corruption and crimes and he is still grifting off the public purse.
The Liberal Party needs to get rid of a long list of crooks and grifters like Joe Hockey, Arthur Sinodinos, Scott Morrison and Allan Tudge etc otherwise they will never be taken seriously enough to regain power.
But the biggest grifter, aside from Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch, is billionaire miner Gina Rinehart and if her puppet Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal Party leader they won’t be going anywhere fast.
Andrew Hastie has ability, but his video above shows he has sold his soul to the highest bidder trying to gain power and the whole country can see it.
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Categories: Andrew Hastie, Gina Rinehart
Big business taking control of our government. Unacceptable enemy though our government is already captured.
Excellent post! Who could forget the Lieberals Arthur Seenodonors and his lost memory?
And just where the hell is our completely corrupted media in all of this? This conspiracy should be the headline of every online print paper and news bulletin in the country!
Yes, the entire country is watching this in real time, while the corrupted billionaire operated media are paid off to ignore it. That corrupted media, also obviously being bankrolled by that same billionaire cartel? After all these billionaires have the exact same vested interests. All of the usual suspects of the LNP/Media 5th column, “Tokyo Rose” like Abbott/Credlin, etc from News corpse, Channel 9, 7, the deplorable “Talkback Hate Radio” propaganda units, all of them, relentlessly conspiring, undermining, white anting everything and anything, even their own Liberal party team and the leader for the crumbs off the table of the billionaire cartels, against the Commonwealth of Australia.
As long as Australians continue to ignore this now almost irrelevant corrupted media as they have been doing the last few years we will remain relatively safe, from the economic and culture war ravages these lot inflicted on society, over the last 20 of the 27 years these deplorable billionaire bankrolled LNP and its Media were in office.
Let’s face it, until we clean up this media, nothing is going to change. If we don’t keep a constant vigil against these billionaire vested interests, we are headed for a carbon copy of Trumps dystopian nightmare, with army troops on the streets against political opponents, in a now lawless corrupted fascist “State of MAGA Trumpistan”, formerly the USA. All hail the new fascist “State of Rhineland Australia”.
All these blood suckers should be cleared out of Parliament House STOP THE POLITICAL DONATIONS. CLEAN OUT THE MEDIA AS WELL
Gina has seen how little power she has if she does not control the LNP and of course all she needs is money to do that. Plenty money tick …now how to get power? Pick a right wing LNP moderately intelligent Member of Parliament and then meet and offer all the funding needed to shift the leadership from Ley to him.
Hastie will be flattered because thats his weakness
He has an Army background which means he is used to others telling him what to do and he tells lower ranks what he has been told ..And he has no economic brain or strategic intelligence but thinks he knows how to lead. However leading MP’s is a different kettle of fish firstly because loyalty is not mandatory and others are also seeing themselves as future PM material .
He has no vision except the past and Australians are over loving the past
Odd how both major parties ignore the continuing saga of ROBODEBT. No one has been brought to pay for the activities of those who enforced the illegal practices. and now Centrelink is in trouble again for wrongfully cutting payments to various classes of recipients dating from 2020 to 2024. The figure of 310,000 has been floated as the number of victims caught out by another unlawful scheme. If only we had an investigative body to root out those responsible. 🙁
I share your disappointment along with a hobbled IACC
Having Hastie as the Lieberal front man would be excellent because it would lengthen the Lieberal time in Opposition. But then the Abbott-led Lieberals won in 2013 so I shouldn’t be so smug. And even in Opposition the Lieberals could (and are) create a huge amount of damage to renewables by sowing disinformation and investor uncertainty.
Labor promised an inquiry where those who were involved in this disgusting practice but not one has been bought to task,no one,–it’s not really good enough that not one of the instigators has not been charged .
I’m very disappointed that nothing has or will be done to ensure the thieving arseholes have their day in court.
The Liberal Party is just an extension to the Labor Party. Just like the red team, they were quite happy to pass the “Social Media Minimum Age” bill, ignoring the 15,000+ submissions that criticized the proposal. Basically, they have disregarded their own core beliefs set out by Menzies. This is why economist John Adams resigned from the party. They even supported the electoral donation reforms that is designed to lock independents out from entering Parliament, even though it was an issue for the Coalition before.
Or here’s a crazy suggestion… Maybe Rinehart and Hastie have simply used their eyes to see what we can all see – that net zero and the “green” push are needlessly suicidal pursuits for both the economy and Australian society.
Herewith another dotty spruiker of climate denial?
Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language’ springs to mind…
I have also published a video of the above article on the Kangaroo Court of Australia YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/4iMwxkMlSyE
Has anyone noticed the rapid change in Andrew Hasie’s complexion? A bright shade of orange is developing as he spruiks, making Australia manufacturing great again.
Let’s draw this out further to a potential and one logical conclusion – the Prime Minister’s role requires experience in law, economics, diplomacy, and governing a nation – skills that are essential for managing complex policy, budgets, and the rule of law.
I believe Andrew Hastie’s background is limited to military service and strong personal religious convictions. While his leadership in the army and faith are notable, he has no legal experience and no economic experience, two of the most critical aspects of national leadership.
Promoting coal and gas or following the agenda of wealthy backers is not a substitute for the broad, impartial judgment voters should expect from a Prime Minister.
For these reasons, I could not in good conscience vote for him, or some others, especially as the Prime Minister of Australia.
Thanks KCA!