{"id":807887,"date":"2026-07-18T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:52:12","slug":"pauline-hanson-denies-rumoured-rift-with-barnaby-joyce-over-tommy-robinson-podcast-pauline-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807887\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson denies rumoured rift with Barnaby Joyce over Tommy Robinson podcast | Pauline Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pauline Hanson has denied rumours of a rift with One Nation recruit Barnaby Joyce over her European tour and podcast with the far-right British activist Tommy Robinson.<\/p>\n

The One Nation leader also denied billing taxpayers for any costs from her trip with Gina Rinehart to a Dolce & Gabbana<\/a> fashion show in Sicily.<\/p>\n

Hanson on Friday appeared in a one-hour podcast with Robinson, a convicted criminal whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, where she made a series of unsubstantiated claims about Muslim Australians.<\/p>\n

After reports the podcast had worsened a growing rift with Joyce, Hanson denied fighting with \u201cmy mate Barnaby\u201d, in a video filmed in London and shared to social media on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get on so well together and he\u2019s having the time of his life,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n

She said Joyce had called her earlier in the week and told her: \u201cYou are the best leader I have ever worked with in any political party.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joyce had also denied a rift on Friday, telling Channel Nine\u2019s Today Show that people were \u201ctrying to divide us up\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPauline and I are great mates,\u201d Joyce said. \u201cI find it a very easy, constructive relationship to be in as far as politics goes, to be quite frank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joyce on Saturday again split from his leader in comments to The Australian, saying he disagreed with Hanson\u2019s claim that Islam is \u201cbased on terrorism\u201d. Australia\u2019s Islamophobia envoy said her language could have violent consequences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hanson has been in London to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, alongside Nigel Farage and Liz Truss, the former British prime minister.<\/p>\n

Hanson addressed a CPAC dinner on Friday (Saturday AEST) with media reportedly barred from attending. According to leaked audio of her speech reported by the Nine papers, she told attendees that \u201cimmigration is destroying our country as it has destroyed yours\u201d.<\/p>\n

She was due to speak again on Saturday, as was Bridget McKenzie, the Nationals senator.<\/p>\n

Farage, the leader of Reform UK, in his address on Friday compared Hanson\u2019s polling rise to Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis political revolution of course has happened in America,\u201d Farage said. \u201cIt\u2019s happening in Australia as we speak. Pauline: amazing. Amazing what you\u2019ve done to get to the top of the opinion polls.\u201d<\/p>\n

The One Nation<\/a> leader earlier in the week took a break from her UK trip to attend the Dolce & Gabbana event in Taormina, Sicily, with Rinehart, Australia\u2019s richest person.<\/p>\n

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Norwegian football star Erling Haaland also attended, while Harper\u2019s Bazaar reported actors Christian Bale and Jennifer Lopez were at the event.<\/p>\n

In her video on Friday, Hanson said she had been invited to the Sicily show, after her attendance prompted criticism from major party politicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an experience, it was fabulous, fantastic to see, but it\u2019s not something I will ever go to again,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just see a lot of jealousy out there. It\u2019s no cost to the taxpayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanson did not detail how the invitation or costs were covered in her video. She did not answer when asked by an ABC reporter, on Friday in London, if she had paid for her trip to Italy.<\/p>\n

Joyce has said it was \u201ca fair bet\u201d Rinehart paid for Hanson\u2019s visit. Rinehart\u2019s company, Hancock Prospecting, referred questions to Hanson\u2019s office when asked whether it facilitated Hanson\u2019s invitation or covered her costs.<\/p>\n

Hanson hit out at the Liberal leader, Angus Taylor, after he said she was \u201cliving it up\u201d in Italy instead of addressing Malcolm Roberts, a One Nation senator, and his promotion of conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe you, Angus,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou actually have a go at me and say I should be back in Australia dealing with the cost of living. Well why don\u2019t you talk to your own members of parliament like Bridget McKenzie, Matt Sullivan and Colin Boyce, all here visiting Italy?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson has denied rumours of a rift with One Nation recruit Barnaby Joyce over her European tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-807887","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\/807887","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=807887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}