00:00As MPs were preparing to call it a day, Anne emotional Louise Kingston using parliamentary
00:07privilege to claim she's been relentlessly bullied and harassed by the WA Nationals leader.
00:13The MP didn't elaborate on her accusations, which Shane Love absolutely denies, pointing
00:19to the fact Ms Kingston has never lodged a complaint about him.
00:22Of course such an accusation would make you reflect.
00:26I can think of nothing that I've done which would make Louise feel that way.
00:30Louise Kingston only entered parliament last year, replacing disgraced former MP James
00:35Haywood who was jailed for child sex offences.
00:38But the South West MP was unlikely to be re-elected, having been dropped down the party's ticket
00:44a fortnight ago.
00:45I think that this is as a result of a difficult and bruising pre-selection process, but we've
00:53gone through that and we have now pre-selected candidates for the upper house who are great
00:57champions for regional Western Australia.
01:00The decimation of the Liberals at the last state election left the WA Nationals as the
01:05official opposition party here for the first time.
01:08But of the seven Nationals elected, five have now announced they're either quitting the
01:12party or resigning at the next state election, leaving just Shane Love and his deputy Peter
01:17Rundle as the only sitting Nationals recontesting.
01:21Is your role as leader still tenable?
01:23Absolutely.
01:24I've got the full support, as I understand, from my party.
01:30The allegation was aired as the federal Nationals leader landed in Perth for the WA Farmers
01:34annual conference.
01:36There are structured processes put in place, as I understand it, not just within the National
01:40Party but also within the Western Australian Parliament and they should be respected.
01:45There's a deep principle in this country that there's a presumption of innocence.
01:49While here, Mr Littleproud is also hoping to convince former WA leader Mia Davies to
01:54join him in Canberra when she retires from state politics, an idea she hasn't ruled out.
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