Disqualified One Nation senator Rod Culleton has played his next card in his campaign against his removal, bizarrely claiming in a 15-page letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that courts are invalid because WA has written itself out of the Commonwealth.
But the self-described senator in exile appears to have effectively pronounced his own election invalid all over again in the process, along with every other WA senator appointed since 2004.
Mr Culletons latest claim of injustice rests on a theory that the West Australian Acts Amendment and Repeal (Courts and Legal Practice) Act 2003 renders the Federal and High courts nugatory.
In the letter, sent to the Prime Minister, Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce, Bill Shorten and senators, the former Wi…
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