Rod Culleton

Rod Culleton
Rod Culleton
Leader of The Great Australian Party
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 April 2019
Preceded by	Position established
Senator for Western Australia
	In office; 2 July 2016 – 11 January 2017
Preceded by	Zhenya Wang
Succeeded by	Peter Georgiou
Personal details
Born	Rodney Norman Culleton; 5 June 1964; Narrogin, Western Australia, Australia
Political party	The Great Australian Party (since 2019)
Other political; affiliations	One Nation (2015–16); Independent (2016);
Spouse	Ioanna Georgiou
Children	3
Relatives	Peter Georgiou (brother-in-law)
Residence(s)	Williams, Western Australia, Australia
Education	Narrogin Senior High School
Alma mater	Challenger Institute of Technology
Occupation	Corporate grain agriculturer; (Self-employed); Purchasing agent; (AWB Limited)
Website	senatorculleton.com.au

Rodney Norman Culleton (born 5 June 1964) is an Australian politician who was sworn in and sat as a Senator for Western Australia following the 2016 federal election. At that time he was a member of the Pauline Hanson's One Nation party, but on 18 December 2016 he resigned from the party to sit as an independent.

On 23 December 2016 the Federal Court of Australia held that Culleton was bankrupt. On 11 January 2017 the President of the Senate, Stephen Parry, wrote to the Governor of Western Australia, Kerry Sanderson, advising her that as a result of Culleton's bankruptcy his seat in the Senate was vacant. Culleton disputed the effect of the court's order and claimed still to be a Senator. His appeal against the bankruptcy order, to the Full Court of the Federal Court, was dismissed on 3 February 2017. On the same day, the High Court determined that Culleton had, in any case, been ineligible for election to the Senate due to a criminal matter in New South Wales. The Senate vacancy left by Culleton was later filled by his brother-in-law Peter Georgiou, One Nation's second Senate candidate for WA in the 2016 election, after an official recount.

Culleton established The Great Australian Party in April 2019.

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