Queensland's lone Greens senator has grimaced at the prospect of working with One Nation in the Federal Parliament, as the make-up of the new Senate became clearer on Thursday.
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The state's allocation of senators was announced on Thursday morning, with One Nation securing two seats, including that of party founder Pauline Hanson.
In order of election, Queensland's senators in the 45th Parliament will be George Brandis (Liberal National Party), Murray Watt (Australian Labor Party), Pauline Hanson (One Nation), Matthew Canavan (LNP), Anthony Chisholm (ALP), James McGrath (LNP), Claire Moore (ALP), Ian Macdonald (LNP), Larissa Waters (Greens), Barry O'Sullivan (LNP), Chris Ketter (ALP) and Malcolm Roberts (One Nation).
The declaration of results was due to occur in Brisbane at 11am on Friday.
On election day, Senator-elect Hanson said she would be willing to work with the Greens on issues in which they had common ground, such as coal seam gas.
"I intend to actually look at all legislation, even if the Labor Party opposition was to put up anything I thought would be good for Australia or the Australian people, they'd get my support," she said after casting her vote in Brisbane last month.
"The same goes for the Greens, because I agree with the Greens on the issues of coal seam gas mining, that we need to have a look at that."
On Thursday, Senator Waters said while the Greens would be open to working with Senator-elect Hanson, she was far from enthused by the prospect.
"The big parties are on a unity ticket when it comes to letting coal seam gas wreck our best food-producing land, to damage our water and wreck our communities, so of course any support to challenge that prevailing dominant view is welcome," she said.
"I can't envisage how that will work in practice.
"I am attempting to keep an open mind about that, but I think the communities around Queensland and other communities around the nation that are affected by coal seam gas continue to want something done to protect their land and water.
"We Greens will continue to work on that. We will continue to try to make allies in that regard, whichever political party they are from, despite however personally challenging that may be."
But Senator Waters said "reaching out" to Senator-elect Hanson would be "overstating" the level of the Greens' engagement with the firebrand politician.
"We will continue to work in the Parliament to bring the views of the community and scientists to bear on parliamentary positions and we will welcome any support on those parliamentary initiatives that we will continue to take," she said.
Of the sitting Queensland senators that contested the 2016 federal election, independent Glenn Lazarus and the LNP's Joanna Lindgren were the only casualties.
Ms Lindgren, who filled a casual vacancy to replace outgoing senator Brett Mason last year, was the first indigenous woman to represent Queensland in the Federal Parliament.
Her uncle was the late senator Neville Bonner, the first indigenous member in the Federal Parliament, who represented Queensland as a member of the Liberal Party.
Senator Waters said, despite their ideological differences, she was disappointed to see Ms Lindgren leave the Parliament.
"The government lost a senator, sadly their only female (Queensland) senator, which speaks volumes about where the Liberals put their women," she said.
"We know that the government has lost many of their sitting female MPs right around the country, including Joanna Lindgren here in Queensland, so our condolences go out to her in losing that role."
The LNP declined to comment.
