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Australia's Richest Woman Warns - Australia Will End Up Impoverished Like Sri Lanka
Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka
|September 28, 2021
• Gina Rinehart, 67, is Australia's richest woman worth $31billion in May 2021 • Warns the country could fall from prosperity into poverty like Sri Lanka
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• Alluring political words of ''free this'' and ''free that'', more taxpayers' money for this or that, helped to turn once-prosperous Ceylon, prosperous with its tea plantations and other agriculture, into a country which couldn't support itself with food
• “its people faced hunger, loss of free speech, consequent damaging riots, property damage, unhappiness, police and military, and a country name change as it struggled with the results of its socialist path.”
This story is from the September 28, 2021 edition of Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka.
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