00:02Walking in with her political career on the line and walking out with a sigh of relief.
00:10Claire Scriven snagging the final seat in the Upper House ahead of the Greens.
00:14While expected, it wasn't certain until her name appeared today.
00:18Obviously waiting all of these weeks to see whether I have actually been elected or not was not easy.
00:23Not easy either for the Upper House's five new members.
00:26They haven't been able to appoint staff, draft legislation or even set up their parliamentary offices.
00:31I have to have someone sign me in right now because I don't have a pass.
00:34We are here today with the declaration of the poll less than 24 hours before we're due in Parliament.
00:42That is not good enough.
00:44Corey Bernardi says it means One Nation won't be contributing much in its first week in Parliament.
00:49They'll enjoy the week of silence from One Nation because in a couple of weeks' time we'll come out all
00:53guns blazing.
00:54The Underfire Electoral Commission, already subject to an independent review, had hoped to declare the result last Friday.
01:01But an increase in early voting and the discovery of uncounted ballots made the process more complex.
01:07Be assured that while adhering to those processes the count was done as quickly as we could manage it.
01:14While Labor will have more Upper House members this term than last, they'll still likely need two votes from the
01:19crossbench to pass legislation.
01:21That's because the government is set to nominate an Upper House president from its own side and lose a vote
01:27from the floor after the Liberals ruled out taking the position.
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