Pauline Hanson gushes over Gina Rinehart’s planes after free flights

March 26, 2026 — 2:00am

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Senator Pauline Hanson has developed a bit of a penchant for being slow to disclose the patronage of Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart, whose planes have provided a sort of unofficial fleet to Hanson and her One Nation entourage.

So when we finally started to see the senator make some timely disclosures this month, we were intrigued to see two of them double as makeshift advertisements for the aircraft operated by Rinehart’s company S. Kidman. The disclosures were also flush with gratitude for the company’s chief executive and former Northern Territory chief minister Adam Giles.

“Thank you S. Kidman CEO Adam Giles. The Pilatus PC-12 is widely regarded as one of the safest and most reliable single-engine turboprop aircraft, featuring a safety record comparable to twin-engine jets,” Hanson wrote in her latest disclosure to the register last week.

“With over 7 million flight hours, it is heavily used in charter and medevac [sic] roles like the Flying Doctors.”

This disclosure, we should note, appears to have landed pretty quickly, just two days after Hanson caught the Rinehart express from Adelaide to Coober Pedy on March 17.

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