• Billionaire Gina Rinehart is preparing to give her Queensland ­bolthole, Brisbane’s most expen­sive luxury home, an upgrade.

Representatives for Australia’s richest woman have lodged plans with the city’s authorities to renovate the mining and media chief’s $18 million house in Hawthorne, 3km east of the CBD, with a ­master bedroom and boathouse upgrades.

With work recently under way to install a lift in the Federation-style Queenslander mansion, the proposal to renovate further has been given the tick to go ahead.

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Gina Rinehart’s House