Gina Rinehart top media exec in Women’s Weekly’s first Power List

Several high-profile members of the media and film communities have been named in the inaugural Australian Women’s Weekly Power List, with mining magnate Gina Rinehart leading the way.

Fairfax’s biggest shareholder is seventh on the list, while Maile Carnegie, the managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand comes in at 13, and new CEO of REA Group Tracey Fellows is in at number 40.

Leading the pack is Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop, with a raft of politicians and bureaucrats in the rankings.

“Women tend to have an uneasy relationship with power – not so much the wielding of it, which they do as well as any man, but the owning of it,” said Australian Women’s Weekly editor-in-chief Helen McCabe.