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One Nation, two egos
Pauline Hanson pays out on her One Nation senate colleague Rod Culleton, saying he's not a team player and the attention has gone to his head.
"This is about considering my position now. The real culture is starting to come through and it's not a culture that I'm in favour of," Senator Culleton told Fairfax Media in his Parliament House office.
"There are certain people in the party that I just don't think I could ever work with, to be honest."
The comments followed an extraordinary outburst from Senator Hanson on 2GB radio on Tuesday in which she portrayed her colleague an egomaniac who was incapable of teamwork or listening to advice.
In an apparent invitation to quit or be pushed, the One Nation leader declared: "We can't work with him, you can't reason with him. He's not a team player at all. You can't give him advice, he runs his own race."
Senator Hanson went on to assert her colleague had been degraded by power. "He loves the limelight, he loves the publicity," she said. "I think the whole lot has gone to his head.
"He would make a very good senator if he could only take direction. I don't think he likes my authority."
The fallout is reminiscent of the disintegration that befouled One Nation's electoral success in Queensland in 1998, when several MPs quit shortly after being elected.
The two senators had seemingly kissed and made up a fortnight ago following an incident in which Senator Culleton sent a threatening letter to a Queensland magistrate, which has been referred to police as a potential perversion of the course of justice.
But Senator Hanson revealed on Tuesday she cannot even hold a civil conversation with her colleague, claiming he repeatedly told her to stop talking and did not treat her with due respect.
Senator Culleton said he would speak with his West Australian constituents over the summer but hinted that his mind was already made up.
"I want a party that's going to perform. To this day I haven't seen much performance from this party other than doing dog-paddling over the bloody Great Barrier Reef," he told Fairfax Media.
"We were very fortunate to have four senators come to the upper house and she [Hanson] is not using our strengths as a bloc to negotiate good outcomes. What has she done? What has Pauline actually got?"
Senator Culleton faces a High Court hearing on Wednesday to determine whether he was legally elected, having been convicted for larceny at the time of the election, despite a later annulment.
He said he was "bitterly disappointed" other senators - including Senator Hanson - had voted for him "to potentially be hung" when they referred his case to the High Court.