As the High Court prepares to rule on how he should be replaced, disqualified senator Rod Culleton insists he's the only politician that hasn't put his own interests first.
"I'm the anti-venom of the system - come in to try and clean it up and it's rejected me," Mr Culleton told AAP.
"The government has reacted to me like a bloody virus.
"It'd be very hard to find a politician that doesn't put his own interests first, other than myself."
Mr Culleton insists he is still a senator, despite being stripped of his West Australian Senate seat after the Federal Court declared him bankrupt in December - a decision he is appealing.
It also comes after a ruling by the High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, this week rejecting his bid to retain the status, privileges and allowances of a senator.
The same court will on Friday hand down its judgment on whether he was eligible to have been elected in the first place, given he had been convicted of larceny at the time of the July 2 election.
The defiant former One Nation senator, who has vowed to take his seat in parliament next week despite the Federal Court ruling, says he'll "lay down the tools" if the High Court deems he was ineligible.
He'll probably go back to being a farmer.
Since he's already been disqualified by the Federal Court decision, Friday's judgment will determine how Mr Culleton's vacancy will be filled.
Constitutional law expert Professor George Williams says if the court rules he was never eligible to have been elected, it's likely to order a recount of the Senate papers.
The likely replacement would be the second person on the One Nation ticket - Mr Culleton's brother-in-law Peter Georgiou.
If the court rules he was eligible to stand for election, One Nation will be able to choose his replacement, but things could get messy if he were to win his bankruptcy appeal.
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