SYDNEY: Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart and a Chinese consortium won final approval Friday to buy one of the world’s biggest cattle estates, ending a lengthy and fraught sale process.

The green light came more than a year after Treasurer Scott Morrison blocked an all-Chinese offer by Shanghai Pengxin for S. Kidman and Co, Australia’s biggest private land owner, as being against the national interest.

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