Dear National Broadcaster.

The richest woman in Australia has no expertise in war, international or domestic law. She is a private person with no qualifications beyond a high school certificate and an inherited fortune.

What she thinks of Ben Roberts Smith is for her private musings. It is not news and there is no requirement for you to publish her missives on it.

@Ex_spurt The richest woman in Australia has nothing beyond a high school certificate and daddy's billions... yet somehow she's strutting around as 'Dr Gina Rinehart'. Must be a PhD in bullshitting from the University of Self-Promotion (honorary, of course — the only kind she could get).