$10 billion can buy you a lot...

...but apparently it cannot buy poetry.

(For non-Australians who may not be familiar with her: Gina Rinehart, by dint of hard workinheriting her father's mining empire, is Australia's richest person. FVO of 'person' that encompass the sort of human being who threatens to cancel her children's kidnap insurance to keep them in line.)

The globe is sadly groaning with debt, poverty and strife
And billions now are pleading to enjoy a better life
Their hope lies with resources buried deep within the earth
And the enterprise and capital which give each project worth
Is our future threatened with massive debts run up by political hacks
Who dig themselves out by unleashing rampant tax
The end result is sending Australian investment, growth and jobs offshore
This type of direction is harmful to our core
Some envious unthinking people have been conned
To think properity is created by waving a magic wand
Through such unfortunate ignorance, too much abuse is hurled
Against miners, workers and related industries who strive to build the world
Develop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
The world’s poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late.

Crikey has a good sporking.