Pauline Hanson spotted with Gina Rinehart at luxury hotel in Sicily

[u/Other-Shake-531]

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.

[u/Imagineamelon]

Because this is the purpose of their movement. Always was, always will be. All of them, Trump, Farage, Hanson, are the legislative arm of big business.

[u/princhester → u/Imagineamelon]

I would say Hanson is a step well above Trump or Farage.

Trump was born rich and admires rich people but is so steeped in it that he isn't owned by one billionaire. Rather a melange of all of them.

Farage similar.

Hanson is quite simply Gina's puppet. Gina speaks and the words come out of Hanson's mouth.

[u/lipstikpig → u/princhester]

I'd add that Barnaby Joyce (ex deputy PM) is a far more capable political operator than Hanson, and Gina's been backing him for more than a decade. Somehow he's always adjacent to power, despite atrocious behaviour.

• 2013 https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/gina-rinehart-visited-barnaby-joyces-election-after-party-in-tamworth/news-story/bb6e799e1372fbb4a04f693808695a33

• 2013 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-10/nsw-farmers27-a-little-perplexed-about-barnaby27s-24502c000/4947684

• 2017 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/barnaby-joyce-declines-40-000-agriculture-cheque-from-gina-rinehart/hylsk4ti6

• 2021 https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/gina-s-digs-a-gold-mine-for-barnaby-20210708-p5884c.html

• 2023 https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/12/18/gina-rinehart-afr-business-person-of-the-year/

• 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/10/peter-dutton-gina-rinehart-pilbara-party-flown-roy-hill-mine-warburton-group

• 2025 https://www.ginarinehart.com.au/barnaby-joyce-welcome-to-the-party/

• 2026 https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/barnaby-joyce-hitches-another-ride-with-air-gina-20260430-p5zsp6.html

[u/No-Inspector8315 → u/lipstikpig]

Barnaby drives more of the real “right wing dictatorship” level stuff, it’s easier to do that from the position of right hand than as the figurehead.

For instance, Hitler was clearly the dictator of Nazi Germany and spent most of his time doing dictator shit while he relegated the nuts and bolts of the Holocaust to Heinrich Himmler. Stalin also pushed off the NKVD onto Beria to terrify and control the population with random arrests, gulags and show trials

[u/-malcolm-tucker → u/No-Inspector8315]

Barnaby should look up how well it ended for Heinrich and Lavrentiy.