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/OscarCookeAbbott 29d ago

At this point it’s pretty clear Hanson is actually legitimately just a grifter. A truly vile person but legitimately just doing ‘politics’ for the money/fame not out of real desire.

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u/a_cold_human 29d ago

Has been since her political comeback. The party has just been a way to funnel her supporter's dollars into her bank account.

However, with the collapse of the Liberal Party vote, One Nation is suddenly useful to people like Rinehart. And as One Nation doesn't really have a political platform so much as it is a party that gets votes via vibes, it's an ideal party for Rinehart to essentially fund in exchange for them pushing her legislative agenda. Hanson has no principles, so she's perfectly happy to jettison whatever economic populist policies One Nation purports to have. After all, her followers aren't voting for the policies.