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'Sick of all the red tape and s***': Wealthy Aussie donors switching to One Nation

Otago Daily Times Online News·Thursday, 7 May 2026·26 days ago
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A few months before Australia's conservative Liberal Party suffered its worst election defeat last May, Sydney stockbroker Angus Aitken donated $A230,000 ($NZ280,000) to the party, a political cause he thought he would support for life. This year he is changing teams, committing $A1.1 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 voters are shifting support from the Liberal-National coalition to an outsider party that has, until recently, relied on small donations. Since launching in 1997, One Nation has had only a peripheral presence in parliament with its hardline anti-immigration stance and antagonism toward environmental and progressive social issues.…

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