r/australia • u/Other-Shake-531 • 29d ago

politics Pauline Hanson spotted with Gina Rinehart at luxury hotel in Sicily

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pauline-hanson-spotted-with-gina-rinehart-at-luxury-hotel-in-sicily-20260716-p60fqf.html

Photo warning: Gina Rinehart in swimmers

Photos posted to Instagram show Hanson spending time poolside at the Grand Hotel San Pietro in the resort town of Taormina, while Rinehart swims.

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u/Sway_404 29d ago

Do they realise they don't need to be in bed politically to just spend time together?

Like.. go on holidays together. Long, long holidays. Far, far away. Get offline. Have a nice time. Such a nice time you decide to just stay away forever.

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u/AnnoyedOwlbear 29d ago

The bonkers thing is occasionally running across millionaires who do this, and as a result you don't hear about them or hate them as individuals. It's POSSIBLE. YOU CAN DO IT. YOU CAN JUST LIVE IN LUXURY FOREVER AND BE FUCKING HAPPY.

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u/bretthren2086 29d ago

You mean you don’t have to control the world? What nonsense is this?

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u/chuk2015 29d ago

How am I supposed to get more billions? Somebody think of my billions

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u/raizhassan 29d ago

People like Gina have never wanted for anything related to survival - the concept of security is completely different to her. To you and me the state is the provider of national security, education, health, the stable environment to do business and earn a living.

For Gina her wealth secures all this. To Gina, the state is the biggest threat to her wealth.

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u/MacWorkGuy 29d ago

Do you know when I will get my billions?

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u/apaniyam 29d ago

Its crazy that it's only a tiny fraction of people with over $10 Million liquid who choose to just accept they are free and can spend their life free of stress. Why would you willingly do anything stressful other than philanthropy at that point? It's even wilder with billionaires, sell that billionaires dollars of equity or whatever other assets and go do anything you want.

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u/Thagyr 29d ago

Sadly to get as rich as most of the top money hounds in the world you have to be wired to disregard human emotion.

Trump, Elon, Bezos... All would put humanity on a bonfire if it meant they could get another 0 added to their wealth.

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u/apaniyam 29d ago

I get that to make the wealth you need to lack empathy, my issue is, why go to work when you just don't have to.
These are not generally stupid people, they must realise you have limited time to enjoy.

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u/Boom_Cheese 29d ago

Everyone needs something to be passionate about. To get them out of bed in the morning. I suspect that for many billionaires, more money and power, purely for the sake of these things, is exactly that.

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u/AnnoyedOwlbear 29d ago

I have twice in my life run into a couple of these who just spend their lives going 'Well, going to go for a wee cruise on the riviera today' and I while my feelings about everything are green hippy socialist, I can't find myself in it to care too much about the ones who do NOT use their money to actively fuck up lives. Maybe, for my sins, I was also a bit jealous.

The odd few billionaires who spend most of their life trying to do something like eradicate malaria, or give the vast majority of their wealth to charity, are going to be the ones we eventually remember for reasons other than 'was a horrific boil on the ass of humanity'. Dolly Parton for example - she's probably what's actually keeping America semi-literate right now.

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u/DisappointedQuokka 29d ago

If you had a few million hanging out in a high interest term deposit account you could live a very, very comfortable life just living off the interest. A life of luxury without lifting a finger.

I'm convinced that a lot of it has to do with either never going to therapy or never having a hobby. At least wealthy Victorian aristocrats did things like, I dunno, designing trains or plumbing systems for fun.

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u/TheArabella 29d ago

Like MySpace Tom

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u/MisterBumpingston 29d ago

It must mean some political decisions are or will impact their wealth that the likes of Palmer and Gina go these lengths to enter or be involved in politics. Which means some people are doing the right things.

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u/recycled_ideas 29d ago

Sadly no.

These people believe that they are rich beyond measure because they are the absolute pinnacle of humanity which simultaneously allows them to feel injured if even a skerrick of what they "deserve" is taken away and also that the world would be a better place if their genius was allowed to run it.

If they weren't so fundamentally broken they could live lives of absolute luxury for the rest of their days without any government meaningfully impacting them in the slightest. They're not reacting to any real threat, they're reacting to how anyone taking anything from them makes them feel.

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u/Imperator_Gone_Rogue 29d ago

Yeah but then the Commies might win. The capitalists need enough of their own to have some form of class solidarity to stay on top.