{"id":637382,"date":"2026-04-29T01:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637382\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:23:10","slug":"one-nation-leader-pauline-hanson-brags-about-being-gifted-new-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637382\/","title":{"rendered":"One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson brags about being gifted new plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She shared the news on her social media this morning, saying it will help her visit more regional towns across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes it was donated. Yes I&#8217;m super happy. Yes it&#8217;s fast. Yes it&#8217;s amazing. Yes it&#8217;s going to annoy the Guardian,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/71096b0b-fb52-42da-8903-10470d16c666.png\"   alt=\"One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has been gifted a private plane and $1 million ahead of the party's first federal test at next week's Farrer by-election. \"\/>One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has been gifted a private plane. (X)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes it&#8217;s a Cirrus G7. Yes it&#8217;s sexy. Yes I have a pilot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No I won&#8217;t be doing welcome to country each we land. No it&#8217;s not battery-operated.\ufeff&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hanson did not say who gifted her the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Newer models of the Cirrus G7 are being listed online for about $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>She also received $1 million from \ufeffstockbroker Angus Aitken and wife Sarah and $500,000 each from former Northern Territory chief minister Adam Giles and geologist and climate sceptic Ian Plimer.<\/p>\n<p>Giles and Plimer are employed at Hancock Prospecting, owned by Australia&#8217;s richest person and loyal Hanson supporter, Gina Rinehart.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson said the &#8220;faith and investment&#8221; in One Nation would be an &#8220;enormous help&#8221; for their federal campaign. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of additional fundraising to undertake between now and the cut-off in December to combat the uni-party ahead of the 2028 federal election,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to pass on my sincere thanks to everyone who has made a contribution to One Nation over the years. I cannot thank you enough for the hope and encouragement you give me to help turn this country around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d40393ba-7ba7-4401-bb15-b1e3d0091c00.jpeg\"   alt=\"Gina Rinehart\"\/>Gina Rinehart is the country&#8217;s richest person.  (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>One Nation will need to publicly declare the more than $2 million in donations at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>New rules that will cap how much politicians can receive in donations will come into effect around the end of the year. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>One Nation&#8217;s record rise in popularity in the polls will be tested at a federal level in the Farrer byelection on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>Former opposition leader Sussan Ley held the regional NSW seat for 25 years and left it empty when she retired from politics earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>One Nation&#8217;s candidate David Farley has emerged as a real contender for Farrer and is in a close race with independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>9news.com.au has contacted \ufeffHanson and Hancock Prospecting for comment.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She shared the news on her social media this morning, saying it will help her visit more regional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-637382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}