{"id":633604,"date":"2026-04-27T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:26:10","slug":"gina-rinehart-calls-for-immigrants-social-media-to-be-screened-in-anzac-memorial-speech-gina-rinehart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633604\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Rinehart calls for immigrants\u2019 social media to be screened in Anzac memorial speech | Gina Rinehart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s richest person, Gina Rinehart<\/a>, called for immigrants\u2019 social media to be screened and said children are being taught to be ashamed of the Australian flag in untelevised remarks before an Anzac memorial service on the steps of Sydney Opera House on Friday.<\/p>\n

Rinehart\u2019s public appearance was attended by about 4,000 people and sponsored by her company, Hancock Prospecting, and RSL New South Wales.<\/p>\n

Rinehart claimed the Australian government was wasting money, eroding freedoms, running an ineffective defence force, leaving veterans homeless, teaching children to be ashamed of the Australian flag and doing nothing in response to \u201cdeath chants\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur immigration procedures must only allow immigrants who have been thoroughly checked \u2013 including their phones, iPads, laptops and social media,\u201d Rinehart said in a speech later posted online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to protect our country \u2013 and welcome only peace-loving, contributing immigrants to our shores. This should not be controversial. What Australians really want their families\u2019 lives hurt by terrorists?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rinehart condemned the \u201cdespicable, hate-filled act \u2013 the murder of our Jewish friends, peacefully gathered in Bondi at the commencement of Hanukkah\u201d and said Australia\u2019s response had been inadequate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Jews, who is next? Roman Catholics? Other peaceful faiths? As none are in accord with the religion acceptable to terrorists.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it adequate when we know that many in our Jewish community are still living in fear of their lives? Is it adequate, when even after Bondi, within the last month, a huge rally with its flags and death chants, paraded down Macquarie [Street] to where we are now. What happened to laws against hate speech, are those laws deaf when hate and death chants are yelled?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rinehart also spoke during the televised section for the event\u2019s prerecorded video introduction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI warmly welcome your call for all Australians to generously support our veterans,\u201d Rinehart said. \u201cOur companies support, and I hope many more Australians will support, our veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mining magnate\u2019s company on Thursday announced it would put $200m towards buying properties to convert into housing for homeless Australian veterans, which it described as \u201cthe biggest ever private commitment for Australian veterans\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rinehart has previously donated to RSL, Soldier On, the Commando Welfare Trust, Legacy and the legal defence of former special forces personnel through the SAS Resources Fund.<\/p>\n

At last year\u2019s service, the billionaire used her address to call for Australia to lift its defence budget to 5% of GDP and invest in \u201cIsraeli-style\u201d drones.<\/p>\n

Rinehart sat in the front row of Friday\u2019s service with staff including Tad Watroba, a Hancock Prospecting executive director.<\/p>\n

Dozens of attendees waved and shouted their thanks to Rinehart at the service\u2019s conclusion, with some shaking her hand, thanking her for her speech and taking photos with her.<\/p>\n

The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, who has called for migrants\u2019 online presences to be screened<\/a>, spoke briefly to Rinehart at the service\u2019s conclusion.<\/p>\n

The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, also attended and spoke before the event\u2019s official commencement, as did the New Zealand defence minister, Chris Penk, and the event\u2019s patron, the former governor general Peter Cosgrove. Marles\u2019 office did not respond on Sunday when asked what he thought of Rinehart\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

Among the other attendees were former prime ministers Scott Morrison and John Howard, the governor of New South Wales, Margaret Beazley, state opposition leader, Kellie Sloane, and state energy minister, Penny Sharpe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s richest person, Gina Rinehart, called for immigrants\u2019 social media to be screened and said children are being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-633604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}