Independent Rex Patrick has approached Climate 200 funder Simon Holmes à Court about funding support as he weighs a possible switch to the lower house.
The South Australian dealmaker could seek to move from the Senate to the safe Liberal seat of Grey, after former high-profile independent Nick Xenophon further complicated his tricky re-election bid by staging a return to federal politics.
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Tom McIlroy was the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief.
