Rise of micro parties not healthy: Pyne

Incoming coalition government minister Christopher Pyne thinks it will be easier to deal with micro parties on the Senate crossbench than Labor or the Greens.

The Senate count continues, but the crossbench could include senators from the Palmer United Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party, Family First and the Australian Sports Party.

Mr Pyne says all are of centre-right persuasion.

"I think it will be much easier in fact for a coalition government to deal with a crossbench dominated by centre-right parties or individuals than Greens or Labor," he told the ABC on Monday.

"In the choice between a Green or a Labor senator being elected or a centre-right party being elected, I will always take the centre-right party because they're more likely to listen openly to our agenda whereas the Greens and Labor are already closing their minds to it."

However, Mr Pyne has concerns about the rise of an industry promoting the so-called micro parties and says a parliamentary committee is likely to examine it.

He noted NSW had previously seen determined campaigns to get micro party representatives elected but it hadn't happened at the federal level in such an organised manner.

"There seems to be an industry growing of how to elect micro parties to the upper houses which I don't think is necessarily healthy," he said.

But the coalition had no policy at this stage to reform the Senate electoral or preference system, he said.

Greens leader Christine Milne said there was a "delicious irony" in the fact Mr Abbott would have to negotiate his legislation through the Senate.

"Tony Abbott is going to have to do exactly what he condemned Julia Gillard for doing," she told reporters in Canberra.

"To negotiate on a daily basis with a group of people who have no policy platform in most cases.

"Some of them are extreme conservatives, right off the map in terms of extreme.

"Who knows where they stand on anything?"