Scrapping the mining tax is not about lining her ample pockets but more about the future of Australia — she says.

That’s what she cares about, making our country sustainable in world markets.

This is the same woman who told us a couple of years back that Australians were overpaid, and that we should “spend less time drinking, smoking and socialising, and more time working”.

It should not come as any surprise that a woman sitting on a $20 billion fortune is completely out of touch with the realities everyday working Australians face.

Do I have to keep hearing her theories and life tips? What have I done to deserve that?

Progressive countries aspire to raise the living standards of all people, not lower them.

But Ms Rinehart’s theory is that the masses should have less and she should have more.

This “big Australian” who wants to dish out advice to her lesser paid countrymen on their many shortcomings doesn’t have the faintest notion of what it is to be Australian, and the value of a fair go.

If she thinks it’s reasonable to pay workers $2 a day while she rolls around in billions, maybe she should take her ethics to other shores. If only she could.

LOUISE COOK,

Wodonga