Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart, executive chair of Hancock Prospecting, advocated for adopting Israeli-style defence measures to protect her mining assets during the 2024 News Corp Australia National Bush Summit in Port Hedland, Western Australia. Rinehart stated, “Mindset change that is needed should include the government’s most important responsibility, and that is the defence of our country. It’s no good having the resources of the Pilbara unless we can export them and receive revenue from them, hence we should have defence to keep our railways and ports open, and our vital sea lanes.” She proposed, “So, surrounding this vital Pilbara engine, we should have the protective iron domes like the ones in Israel, plus war drones and smart sea mines, plenty of them, and similarly across our sea lanes and ports and some islands, from the north-west through to the north-east.” On June 18, at the Townsville News Corp Bush summit in North Queensland, she suggested offering “free land, be that near Prairie if suitable, or elsewhere near Townsville, to the Israelis and transport here for their skilled people, immediate families and equipment, and encouraged the Israelis to develop and build their advanced war drones, and other advances in defence, and or improve upon their Israeli style domes, and manufacture them here to sell to our country and to help make our people and critical infrastructure safe.”