Heffernan to retire from politics
AAP
Maverick Liberal senator Bill Heffernan will bow out of politics at the next federal election.
Senator Heffernan told AAP on Saturday that he did not nominate for the NSW Liberal Party Senate ticket but declined to comment further.
The outspoken 72-year-old farmer is well known for smuggling a fake pipe bomb into parliament and for making false claims under parliamentary privilege about a former High Court judge.
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