Jim Chalmers accuses One Nation of taking orders from Gina Rinehart

Labor’s war on One Nation just turned deeply personal, and one billionaire’s name keeps coming up.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has gifted One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, a plane. Image: Facebook

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has ripped into Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and the Liberal Party, suggesting that billionaire Gina Rinehart is calling the shots.

Accusing critics of the budget changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing of being all about protecting their privilege, the Treasurer revved up ALP delegates on Thursday, urging them to keep the faith.

“Our tax reforms begin with the simple truth that there’s a generational crisis in housing,’’ he said.

“We can choose to ignore it or choose to address it. Ignoring it would be easier politically, much easier, but the wrong choice. It would consign future generations to a broken status quo and leave this for some other government to fix.

The Treasurer didn’t hold back. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

“Too many young Australians are already locked out of housing, and we decided not to let that endure. We decided not just to acknowledge that truth but to actually do something about it, even if it meant the predictable daily barrage of scare campaigns

full of lies.”

But the attack got personal when the Treasurer accused his opponents of trying to stop the path of progress for first-home buyers.

“Our opponents who say we’re pulling up the ladder don’t understand there’s not much point in a ladder with the first few rungs missing,’’ he said.

“Not everybody is born already at the top of the ladder like Angus Taylor was; not everybody fails upwards like he has.

“And unlike One Nation, we vote the way workers need us to, not the way Gina Rinehart tells us to.

“The irony of their position is they want to change the government in order to leave everything as it is – a truly absurd proposition.

Gina Rhinehart and Pauline Hanson spotted on holiday together in, Thailand. Picture: Instagram

“Too often the story of this Budget is told by the biggest beneficiaries of these current arrangements, not the biggest victims of the broken status quo.”

Liberal leader Angus Taylor, a lawyer who was a Rhodes scholar who attended Oxford University, has a personal wealth is estimated to be between $10 million and $20 million.

Mr Chalmers said there would “always those who want everything to stay exactly the same.”

“We’re not among them,’’ he said.

Gina Rinehart at the 2025 CPAC Australia Conference. Picture: NewsWire/ Glenn Campbell

“When we’re reforming a broken status quo and they are clinging to it, none of it comes easy.

“All of it is hard, all of it contentious and contested, but all of it is worth it.

“Because we have a big chance to do things differently and better here in Australia, and we intend to make the most of that opportunity and make our own way in an uncertain world.”

Pauline’s plane freebie under fire

Speaking in Sydney, the Prime Minister also honed in on Pauline Hanson’s links to billionaire Gina Rinehart, who recently donated access to a $2 million private aircraft to One Nation.

Mr Albanese was asked about her ‘Fire the Liar’ campaign, which has now raised over $1.5 million through crowd-funding in the last 24 hours.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has gifted One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, a plane. Picture: Facebook

“This is someone who got a plane worth more than that given to her by Australia’s richest person,” Albanese said.

“So that pales into insignificance compared with the size of a single donation that was given.”

Mr Albanese then questioned whether the donations were “real” a claim One Nation has brushed off, insisting the donations are genuine.

“Did she, did she though? What evidence is there?’ Mr Albanese said.

“It’s an example of slogans being put forward, not substance.”

Source: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/jim-chalmers-accuses-one-nation-of-taking-orders-from-gina-rinehart/news-story/aba76122c7cdbf6b5853eb15566ad380