Gina Rinehart takes a BIG STICK to ABC and demands a public apology

ABC has to be DEFUNDED NOW tax payer funded continual DEFAMATORY RUBBISH is broadcasted basically ABC has become a communist propaganda machine funded by the tax payer. Graham Healy say 25/7/26 **Yes — it’s a real and highly controversial segment from the ABC’s *Race Around the World* that has drawn strong criticism as graphic, violent, and sexualised.**

In a short film titled “A Very Relaxing Video” (created by contestant Kate McGuinness while filming in Scotland), the piece starts as a quirky “Scottish forest warrior ninja” guide to calming exercises and stick practice. It then shifts into a monologue about a coming “revolution” that includes explicit language describing sodomising and torturing Gina Rinehart with a stick, mixing her guts, and turning her into “one big sausage roll.” The segment aired on the program (around 12 July 2026) and was made available on iview.

Key points from the coverage:

- Hancock Prospecting (Rinehart’s company) has condemned it as “appalling,” accusing the ABC of “encouraging and normalising violence and murder,” and called for an apology plus action against those who approved it. They described the content as graphically depicting her being “sodomised and tortured in a manner that would kill her.”

- The ABC has defended it as “intended to be satirical” and “editorially justifiable.” It has not removed the content.

- On the panel (which included Leigh Sales), most reaction was muted or positive; Sales was the only one to criticise it, calling the Rinehart part a “nasty gag” that shifted the tone into partisan territory, while still saying she quite liked the film overall.

- Critics (including Andrew Bolt and others) have labelled it a “pornographic violent fantasy,” “barbaric,” and an example of the taxpayer-funded broadcaster airing extreme political hatred it would never tolerate if directed at figures on the left.

The language is extreme enough that multiple outlets have declined to reprint the full quote in detail. It has fueled broader debate about ABC standards, bias, and what content is acceptable on public broadcasting.