One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has been caught failing to properly declare additional free flights from mining magnate Gina Rinehart, adding to a pattern of undisclosed gifts from Australia's richest person.
According to an investigation by The Guardian, Hanson received multiple flights on private aircraft owned by Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting company but failed to declare them within the required timeframe, if at all.
The relationship between Hanson and Rinehart has long raised questions about how mining money influences Australian politics, particularly on climate policy and Indigenous land rights—two issues where both women share hardline conservative positions.
Classic Australian political corruption story, this: A populist politician claiming to represent battlers while taking private jets from billionaires. Hanson rails against elites in Parliament while flying first-class on Rinehart's dime.
Parliamentary rules require politicians to declare gifts, benefits, and hospitality valued over $300 within 28 days. Private flights on corporate jets typically cost tens of thousands of dollars per trip, placing them well above declaration thresholds.
Hanson's office has not responded to questions about the undeclared flights, or whether she intends to update her pecuniary interest register. One Nation has previously dismissed scrutiny of Hanson's relationship with Rinehart as "media attacks on a successful businesswoman and a strong female politician."
But government accountability advocates say the issue goes beyond parliamentary paperwork. "When a mining billionaire is providing substantial benefits to a politician who votes on mining regulations, Indigenous rights, and climate policy, Australians deserve transparency," said from the .
