Libs want One Nation preferences: Hanson

Pauline Hanson says Liberal candidates have been sounding out her party for preference deals.

Pauline Hanson poses for a photograph

Pauline Hanson says Liberal candidates have been approaching her party seeking preference deals. (AAP)

Pauline Hanson says Liberal candidates have been approaching her party seeking preference deals.

The One Nation leader says she and a Senate candidate have been sounded out despite Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declaring she is not welcome in Australian politics.

"We have had approaches from Liberal party candidates who are asking for preferences in this election," she told AAP.

Ms Hanson said she has been personally approached about a lower-house preference deal for a lower seat in Queensland, while one of her senate candidates, Simon Roylance, had been approached in Victoria.

She also says she had been approached by Labor about a preference deal in a lower house Queensland seat.

Labor denied the claim, saying it would be "putting One Nation last everywhere", while the LNP in Queensland said it would not preference Ms Hanson in the Senate.

"Pauline Hanson is not among the six Senate candidates we will be preferring in Queensland," an LNP spokesperson said.

However, the party did not comment on any lower house preference arrangements and Victorian Liberal senate candidate Karina Okotel admitted to calling Mr Roylance, though she denied seeking a preference deal.

Ms Okotel told AAP she had essentially been finding out what parties were running open tickets and that decisions regarding preferences were a matter for the party.

Ms Hanson said she had also been approached by someone else in the Liberal National Party who indicated they were willing to work with her.

"Malcolm Turnbull may have said that I'm not welcome in parliament but that's not the feeling I'm getting from others within the LNP," she said.

She said she would entertain preference deals but would look at seats individually and was wary about potential backflips.

"I'm going to look at it on a seat-by-seat basis - what I think is right for the party, my candidates but most of all the people in the electorate," she said.

"I will not be doing their grubby deals."


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