Hanson and Joyce bill taxpayers for flights to private events on luxury cruise ship hosted by Rinehart

Exclusive: Parliamentary records show the One Nation MPs claimed travel expenses for fundraising events on exclusive cruise liner where mining billionaire owns an apartment Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce billed taxpayers more than $3,000 to attend fundraising and donor events on board the luxury cruise ship The World, hosted by the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. Guardian Australia can reveal that in December last year Hanson and Joyce attended multiple private events on the world’s largest privately owned cruise ship, on which Australia’s richest person owns an exclusive multimillion-dollar apartment. Both politicians claimed taxpayer-funded travel to attend the events. Under rules for MPs, taxpayer-funded resources can only be claimed if the dominant purpose of the travel is for parliamentary business, which excludes fundraising events or soliciting donations. The One Nation leader and her daughter, Lee Hanson, also hosted business leaders for a private lunch on board the luxury ship when it was in port in Hobart on 2 January. Rinehart is not believed to have bee