Emails lay bare rumblings of Rinehart children’s failed coup

“I hope it’s solid so it doesn’t mess up the Hope Downs deal. It is solid, right?” she wrote.

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John cautioned his sister to “just be careful what you sign”.

Stoljar said the email chain was then forwarded by John’s sister Bianca to an address understood to belong to their mother, Gina.

“That’s all that was in there. I’ll wait for idiot John to reply,” Bianca wrote.

It would be another four years before John and two of his sisters would actually take their bid to…