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Mrs Rinehart told the Queensland crowd Australia needed an equivalent of Mr Trump’s newly promised government division to be named the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE.

That proposed advisory department, touted to be led by Tesla and X founder Elon Musk among others, would aim to slash government spending and streamline processes.

She also highlighted Mr Trump’s plan to not only slash red tape but to also cut the corporate tax rate in the United States to 15 per cent – versus 30 per cent in Australia.

Mrs Rinehart reiterated she was a big fan of the ‘drill, baby, drill’ slogan rolled out by the president-elect in his pledge to lead an oil production boom and cut energy prices.

It comes after Mrs Rinehart, a long-time backer of Mr Trump, spent the days following the election meeting with Mr Musk, according to reports by the Australian Financial Review.

Fellow billionaire Andrew Forrest told the COP summit earlier this month he prefers the phrase ‘build, baby, build’ in reference to green energy ambitions being pursued by Fortescue.

“I’m a big fan of, ‘drill, baby, drill’. I was wearing that in the USA and on Friday for National Mining Day along with ‘dig, baby, dig’,” Mrs Rinehart said at the Atlas plant opening.

“But out here in Australia these words are becoming timid whispers.

“These days some like to claim that our country can run on sunbeams and windmills alone.

“By all means put these on your own properties if you wish, but don’t force it on us or taxpayers when the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine on solar panels.”

Days earlier, Mrs Rinehart rhetorically asked delegates at South Australian event: “don’t you just love the saying ‘drill baby drill’.”

She also implored the crowd not to be frightened to call for ‘make our bank accounts great again’.

In that speech, Mrs Rinehart called for duplicated state and federal government departments to be dismantled in a bid to reduce the number of approvals needed to get projects across the line.

She said government expenditure and waste needed to be slashed to enable tax cuts in Australia.

“Cut out the duplicated federal departments, have the courage to sell the ABC radio, and close the ABC TV like the opposition leader in Canada, Pierre, has announced he will do,” Mrs Rinehart said.

“Cut out expenditure on the Environmental Defenders Office, sell the pot plants and artifacts from all the departments and agencies offices (let them bring in their own), these are just some of many opportunities to cut expenditure and wastage to make way for tax cuts.”