FILE PHOTO: Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) address the media following their talks in Berlin, Germany, April 23, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A defection from Australia's most prominent right-wing political party, Pauline Hanson's One Nation, on Thursday robbed it of its ability to block Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's legislation, raising the prospect he can introduce tax cuts.
Brian Burston, who will now sit in the upper house Senate as an independent, resigned from One Nation over infighting, the latest blow to the party that re-emerged as a force in Australian politics in 2016.
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