SYDNEY/MELBOURNE - A few months before Australia's conservative Liberal Party suffered its worst election defeat last May, Sydney stockbroker Angus Aitken donated 230,000 Australian dollars ($165,000) to the party, a political cause he thought he would support for life.This year he is changing teams, committing AU$1.1 million to populist anti-immigration party Pauline Hanson's One Nation as he turns away from a conservative establishment racked by infighting and dismal polling.Aitken is not alone. Encouraged by mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, some of Australia's wealthiest donors are shifting support from the Liberal-National coalition to an outsider party that has, until recently, relied on small donations.
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SYDNEY/MELBOURNE - A few months before Australia's conservative Liberal Party suffered its worst election defeat last May, Sydney stockbroker Angus Aitken donated 230,000 Australian dollars ($165,000) to the party, a political cause he thought he would support for life.This year he is changing teams
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