Culleton keeps voting despite court case

Embattled One Nation senator Rod Culleton now says he will continue to vote on legislation, despite previously saying he would abstain.

Senator Culleton is facing a referral to the High Court over his eligiblity to stand for parliament.

He told parliament on Monday he had accepted advice from the Senate Clerk that he had the right to continue to exercise his vote while the court considered the matter.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said her party would support the referral to the High Court.

She said she had believed Senator Culleton when he signed a form, witnessed by a justice of the peace, which said he was eligible to run for parliament.

"My fellow colleagues and I support Senator Culleton but we have seen on too many occasions politicians in this place and the other place who have not been accountable to the Australian people and I will not stand here and be of the same ilk," she said.

"I believe it should go to the High Court to make a ruling on this matter and ... I would dearly love to see Senator Culleton take his place here as a One Nation senator."

Senator Culleton told parliament he wanted a "full jury trial" instead of a hearing before the High Court bench.

"We have a country in need of a moral and ethical Senate chamber and yet the most urgent call to this chamber this morning is to attempt to remove two senators who have worked determinedly to restore the constitutional rights of all Australians," he said.