The Populist: Aeroplanes and bulldozers | Episode 1 – podcast

‘If you’re trying to say I’m being funded by Gina Rinehart, the answer is no’. That’s what the One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, told the Guardian’s senior correspondent Sarah Martin in February. We now know that’s not true. Over months, Martin pieced together flight tracking data and expense records to uncover the true extent of financial support flowing from Australia’s richest person to the country’s fastest growing political force. Episode one of the Populist tells the inside story, from the Farrer byelection to the National Press Club, including exclusive new reporting : Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce stayed at Gina Rinehart’s $20m mansion after One Nation fundraisers