A Queensland publican will take over from a British citizen as the newest senator in Pauline Hanson's One Nation.
Fraser Anning will be catapulted into the federal Upper House to replace Malcolm Roberts, who was ejected from the Senate because he was a British citizen when he was elected.
Mr Anning was third on One Nation's Queensland Senate ticket and received 19 first preference votes at last year's poll.
For a time, there was some doubt about whether the long-time supporter of Senator Hanson would be eligible for Parliament, as he was facing bankruptcy legal action.
Mr Anning and his wife owed more than $212,000 to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, but the case was withdrawn last month.
According to his candidate biography, which has now been removed from the One Nation website, Mr Anning grew up in a family that grazed sheep and cattle in north-west Queensland.
The biography said Mr Anning and his wife had owned a number of hotels and had most recently lived in Gladstone, in central Queensland.
He will serve the remaining two years of Mr Roberts' three-year term, in the second change in the party's bloc of four senators this year.
Peter Georgiou became a One Nation senator after Rod Culleton's election was ruled invalid.
In an indication of some party tensions, Mr Anning promptly responded when Mr Roberts was disqualified from Parliament just over a week ago, issuing a press release declaring "Roberts falls off his perch".
"It is however infuriating that the Australian taxpayer has had to stump up millions of dollars to pay for a court decision, just because five politicians couldn't get their act together to do what was required by the constitution," the statement said.
Mr Anning said he had given Senator Hanson his "unqualified loyalty" for more than 20 years.
He ran for One Nation in the House of Representatives seat of Fairfax in 1998.
He assured constituents he would not have the same citizenship problems as Mr Roberts.
"I can certainly assure all Queenslanders that before I nominated I took all steps to ensure that I was eligible to be a senator and obviously as a candidate for an Australian nationalist party, not being a foreigner is a pretty important part of that," he said.
