Aust'n, Chinese consortium ups bid for world's largest cattle station as rival withdraws

by Matt Goss MELBOURNE, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- A consortium consisting of Australia's richest woman and a Chinese investment firm has upped its bid for the world's largest cattle station, making them the likely winners of the bidding war. Australian Outback Beef (AOB), a venture 67 percent owned by Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting and 33 per cent by China's Shanghai CRED, increased its bid for the S Kidman and Co cattle empire, the world's...