The controversial proposal for One Nation to profit from the Queensland election was never an idea floated during the recent West Australian poll, the party's state leader says.
Pauline Hanson's chief-of-staff James Ashby had suggested the party could profit at the forthcoming Queensland election by charging candidates to cover half the cost of campaign expenses, but the idea was shut down.
"Lots of ideas get floated and a lot of them get thrown away," One Nation WA leader Colin Tincknell told reporters in Perth on Monday.
But he said no such idea was mentioned in the lead-up to the WA election in March.
"We don't have big multinational sponsors. We don't have unions, so we have to try and fund campaigns and we're always looking at ways to do that," he said.
"We do ask our candidates to pay their own way and that's what we did in the WA election."
Senator Hanson and Mr Ashby were in Perth for the swearing in of the three One Nation members into the upper house, but Mr Tincknell said he was not concerned about her interfering in WA politics.
"She's just here to support us," he said.
"When people voted this year for One Nation, most of those votes were directed because of Pauline.
"In the next four years, the three MLCs that got elected for One Nation, it's our job to do good work and hopefully we'll be earning our own votes come next election."
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