2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (236+ words) Glamorous, rich and well-connected, Julie Meyer was a darling of the dotcom boom. But people who worked with the entrepreneur complain about unpaid wages, debts to suppliers and missing money. Journalist Olivia Lee and the Guardian’s investigation team unravel her…...

6+ mon, 14+ hour ago   (508+ words) The Guardian ‘Let’s-a go!’ The story of Nintendo – podcast Video games editor Keza MacDonald traces the rise of Nintendo, and explains why its sense of fun matters in a world of big tech It is the company that gave us…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (416+ words) Glamorous, rich and well-connected, Julie Meyer was a darling of the dotcom boom. But people who worked with the entrepreneur complain about unpaid wages, debts to suppliers and missing money. Journalist Olivia Lee and the Guardian’s investigations team unravel the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (202+ words) Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for societyToday in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new episodes from 1 September. In the meantime,…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (111+ words) In the previous episode, we covered historical claims made over the years that Lang Hancock, Gina’s father, had two unacknowledged daughters with separate Indigenous women. Now, the daughter of Sella Robinson, one of the Indigenous women who claimed to be…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (184+ words) How does Gina Rinehart, like her father before her, use wealth and power to influence Australian politics? Rinehart’s first major foray into the political spotlight was successfully lobbying against Labor’s mining super-profit tax in the early 2010s. But what did she…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (225+ words) Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, is well known as a pioneer of Australia’s iron ore industry but few realise Hancock started his mining career on a smaller scale and digging for a different substance – blue asbestos. Hancock and his partner…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (145+ words) We unpack the bitter rivalries, court battles and family conflicts behind the Hancock fortune, and consider a fundamental question: is Rinehart a mining heiress or is she a self-made mining magnate? We look at her crowning achievement to date in…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (215+ words) It’s the portrait of Gina Rinehart that launched 1,000 memes, went viral globally and became Australia’s Mona Lisa. But it’s also a symbol of how wealth intersects with other areas of life, including art and sport. How does Rinehart use her…...