Gina Rinehart urges government to ‘drill, baby drill’ and build Israeli-style ‘iron dome’ in northern Australia

Billionaire mining magnate reveals her defence and economic blueprint for Australia at News Corp's bush summit in Townsville

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Mining magnate and pastoralist Gina Rinehart has urged the government to drill, baby drill and dig, baby, dig" and use the proceeds to massively upgrade defence, including with an Israeli-style iron dome" missile deflection system.

Presenting a personal defence and economic blueprint for Australia at News Corp's bush summit in Townsville on Friday, Rinehart called for the reintroduction of compulsory national service for all biological men... under, say, 53" with voluntary service for biological women".