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"Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait of her from an exhibition by Archibald Prize-winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira.

The billionaire mining mogul directly approached NGA director Nick Mitzevich and NGA chair Ryan Stokes in April to press for the portrait’s removal.

There have since been more than a dozen complaints to the gallery from associates of her company, Hancock Prospecting, which have accused the NGA of “doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party” by displaying her image in an unflattering way."

Archived article from the Age

Article from the Guardian

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.[1] The effect exemplifies psychological reactance: where the desire to hide information instead makes its propagation more likely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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[-] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago

who's ~~probably~~ a terrible person

She wants to pay people $2 per day defending it with "Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socializing, and more time working". in case you were wondering how she become a billionaire... yeah it was inheritance

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

she got an unflattering painting, she deserves a bullet

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Jew@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Another shrimp on the ~~barbie~~ barbara

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