Globe-trotting One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has revealed that mining magnate Gina Rinehart picked up the tab for her flights between London, Rome and Sicily and her ticket to a Dolce & Gabbana fashion parade.Senator Hanson, who previously declined to say who paid for the trip, lodged an update to her pecuniary interest register this week confirming she personally covered the cost of her accommodation, meals and expenses.However, the billionaire covered the connecting flights for Senator Hanson’s European trip.“It didn’t cost the taxpayer one cent for my trip overseas. Not one cent,” Senator Hanson said.The One Nation leader holidayed with Gina Rinehart at the five-star Grand Hotel San Pietro, where the pair were photographed poolside.The images, first reported by The Australian Financial Review, were snapped by fellow Aussies at the luxury resort in Sicily.The venue rose to fame after featuring as the backdrop for HBO’s smash hit drama, The White Lotus.In a social media video responding to criticism in Australia over the trip, the One Nation leader was unrepentant.“Yes, I went to Sicily. Yes, I went to the Dolce & Gabbana fashion show,” she said.“What an experience. I was invited to go and thought, ‘well, I’ve never been to anything like that’. And I thought, ‘yes, I’m going to go and see it’. Is it my scene? No, no way in the wide world.”Ms Hanson has previously declared multiple gifts from Ms Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting including return flights to Florida in October and a “bloody big orange bulldozer”.She has also confirmed being gifted a plane by Gina Rinehart to campaign in regional Australia.“BREAKING NEWS – I’ve got a new plane,” the One Nation leader said in a social media post.“Yes it was donated. Yes I’m super happy. Yes it’s fast. Yes it’s amazing.“Yes it means I can visit more regional towns across the country more often.”Senator Hanson described the aircraft – a Cirrus G7 - as “sexy” and revealed she would not be doing “welcome to country each (time) we land”.Treasurer Jim Chalmers ripped into One Nation and the Liberal Party last week, suggesting that billionaire Ms Rinehart is calling the shots.Accusing critics of the budget changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing of being all about protecting their privilege, the Treasurer revved up ALP delegates in Adelaide.“Our tax reforms begin with the simple truth that there’s a generational crisis in housing,’’ he said.“We can choose to ignore it or choose to address it. Ignoring it would be easier politically, much easier, but the wrong choice. It would consign future generations to a broken status quo and leave this for some other government to fix.“Too many young Australians are already locked out of housing, and we decided not to let that endure. We decided not just to acknowledge that truth but to actually do something about it, even if it meant the predictable daily barrage of scare campaignsfull of lies.”But the attack got personal when the Treasurer accused his opponents of trying to stop the path of progress for first-home buyers.“Our opponents who say we’re pulling up the ladder don’t understand there’s not much point in a ladder with the first few rungs missing,’’ he said.“Not everybody is born already at the top of the ladder like Angus Taylor was; not everybody fails upwards like he has.“And unlike One Nation, we vote the way workers need us to, not the way Gina Rinehart tells us to.Mr Chalmers said there would “always those who want everything to stay exactly the same.”“We’re not among them,’’ he said.Read related topics:Pauline Hanson
Gina Rinehart paid for Pauline Hanson’s Italy flights, Dolce & Gabbana show
Globe-trotting One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has revealed that mining magnate Gina Rinehart picked up the tab for her flights between London, Rome and Sicily and her ticket to a Dolce & Gabbana fashion parade.







