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 vividspecter   ( @vividspecter@lemm.ee )  to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 1 year ago

Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’

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Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’

www.theguardian.com

 vividspecter   ( @vividspecter@lemm.ee )  to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 1 year ago
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Freedom of information documents reveal mining magnate lobbying National Gallery chair over Vincent Namatjira portraits
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  •  NoForwardslashS   ( @NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    She deserves worse portraits. $46bil from mining is comic book villainy. Thanos and his plight garners more sympathy, who incidentally, she looks a lot like.

    •  Che Banana   ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 
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      She’s almost asking for someone to put up a website & ask users to submit thier own Gina artwork.

      …or at least an Instagram page dedicated to this latest Streisand effect screeching

  •  Minarble   ( @Minarble@aussie.zone ) 
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    •  sparky@lemmy.federate.cc   ( @sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ) 
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      That’s not accurate at all! The real Gina would be eating spiders with her lizard tongue.

  •  solarvector   ( @solarvector@lemmy.zip ) 
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

    I’d say both artists did well to capture the essence of their subject.

  •  🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖   ( @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ) 
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    A real aussie would be honoured to have such a portrait

  •  Aussieiuszko   ( @Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone ) 
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    Gina wants to pay workers like 20c an hour if she could.

    She’s a piece of shit and the world will be better off without her.

    •  hitmyspot   ( @hitmyspot@aussie.zone ) 
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      No, no. Shes an incredible job builder and businesswoman. The odds of such a business mastermind being born to a mining magnate were very low, but she beat those odds. Nothing to do with the fortune of her birth.

  •  No1   ( @No1@aussie.zone ) 
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    Art is great.

    • National Gallery portrait
    • Jabba the Rindheart
    • Gina the Hutt
    •  Norah (pup/it/she)   ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      that last one looks like Hosier’s lane!

  •  AllNewTypeFace   ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 
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    Well, if Australia’s sporting heroes say that these paintings shouldn’t be on display, who are we to argue?

    •  psud   ( @psud@aussie.zone ) 
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      1. Gina is not a sport person
      2. Bullshit. If Warnie copped a derogatory portrait, he’d never be able to suppress it
      •  Norah (pup/it/she)   ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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        No, she got some swimmers to write in saying her portrait should be removed.

        •  Nath   ( @Nath@aussie.zone ) M
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          You misspelled “paid”. 😉

  •  fine_sandy_bottom   ( @fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ) 
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    Billionaire learns interweb.

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