{"id":828900,"date":"2026-07-28T10:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/828900\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:59:15","slug":"pauline-hanson-reveals-gina-rinehart-paid-for-london-rome-and-sicily-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/828900\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson reveals Gina Rinehart paid for London, Rome and Sicily flights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pauline Hanson has updated her parliamentary register of interests, declaring that billionaire Gina Rinehart paid for her flights between London, Rome and Sicily \u2013 as well as gifted her an invitation to attend a Dolce & Gabbana fashion parade.<\/p>\n

The One Nation leader said she had personally covered the cost of her accommodation, meals and daily expenses during the European trip, which included a stop at the luxury Sicilian resort town of Taormina<\/a> with Australia\u2019s richest person.<\/p>\n

\"PaulinePauline Hanson (right) at a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Italy earlier this month, with jewellery designer Margot McKinney.Instagram\/@beatyesterday_art<\/p>\n

Hanson\u2019s updated disclosure, lodged on Tuesday, came after photographs emerged of her holidaying with Rinehart at the five-star Grand Hotel San Pietro, where the pair were seen by the pool during the mining magnate\u2019s visit for the Italian fashion house\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

The images, first reported by The Australian Financial Review, showed Hanson strolling poolside, fully clothed and holding a mobile phone, while Rinehart swam in the resort pool.<\/p>\n

Hanson had not publicly disclosed the side trip while speaking at a major conservative conference in London, despite posting on social media during the same period about issues including supermarkets squeezing farmers and foreign ownership of Australian assets.<\/p>\n

\"GinaGina Rinehart (left) and Hanson at a resort in Sicily earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The One Nation senator spent the parliamentary winter recess touring Britain, where she met with figures from the far right, including recording an interview with anti-Islam activist and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a Seven West Media event in Perth last week, Hanson defended her friendship with Rinehart and rejected suggestions taxpayers had funded any part of the trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t cost the taxpayer one cent for my trip overseas. Not one cent,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n

She praised Rinehart\u2019s business success, saying the mining magnate had \u201cdone it tough\u201d and built her company from difficult beginnings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a woman that\u2019s done it tough \u2026 and you think that she\u2019s come with a silver spoon? She didn\u2019t,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cShe had to borrow everything and was flat out in the very start to pay the bills. She\u2019s built up that company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanson\u2019s relationship with Rinehart has become an increasingly prominent feature of One Nation\u2019s finances and public profile.<\/p>\n

In April, Hanson was gifted a new Cirrus G7 aircraft<\/a> by a Rinehart company, with the plane valued at about $1.3 million. The donation was followed by $2 million in cash contributions from Rinehart\u2019s business associates, including former Northern Territory chief minister Adam Giles and climate sceptic Ian Plimer.<\/p>\n

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