One Nation leader Pauline Hanson will rail against the Coalition and lavish praise on Donald Trump as she rubs shoulders with the US president’s inner orbit at a $25,000-a-head conservative forum at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

Australia’s most prominent populist-right politician, who is hoping to recruit Barnaby Joyce to boost her fortunes, has been staying at Trump’s resort this week as polling shows her party is tracking at a high of 15 per cent for primary votes – only nine points short of the opposition.

Hanson was the only Australian invited by the Conservative Political Action Conference to speak at its exclusive “Circle Retreat and Gala” at Trump’s resort. UK Reform Party leader Nigel Farage was feted at a similar event in 2018.

“Australia … has become an economic and social tinderb

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