James Thompson

Who won?

Anthony, you're a very practical person.

You're grounded in the real world.

That's what I love about you.

You're pragmatic, always straight down the line.

But part of me likes to think that when you're a kid, you were into the greatest fantasy sport of all time, wrestling.

And you might have sat down and watched WrestleMania, where everybody, you know, lots of different wrestlers get into the ring.

And at the end, one fighter is left standing.

This was the legal version of WrestleMania.

So within the ring, there were several battles going on.

Now, the first and probably the most important one was Gina Reinhart's Hancock prospecting versus the family of a guy called Peter Wright.

Now, he was Lang Hancock.

That's Gina's dad and the founder of Hancock prospecting, the guy who found all the iron ore in the Pilbara.

Peter Wright was Lang Hancock's business partner many moons ago.

Eventually, the two sort of went their separate ways, but the Wright family was suing Hancock Prospecting and Gina Reinhart for a share of royalties from the mines that were eventually created out of what Hancock Prospecting found, and an equity stake in some of those mines.

So they wanted cash and a stake in the business.

Then you had a second battle, Gina versus the family of a guy called Don Rhodes, who most of us probably hadn't heard of until this case came up.

He was the owner of an earth-moving business that Lang Hancock used to help basically prove that the Pilbara was full of iron ore.

He also wanted a royalty from the mines that were eventually developed by Hancock prospecting.

And then you had Gina versus her own kids, Bianca Reinhart and John Hancock.