[7] This policy contradicts the actions of Wayne Glew, the lead candidate for the Senate in Western Australia in 2019, who had previously made attempts to prevent the seizure and sale of his own residential property due to outstanding rates and levies owed by him to the City of Greater Geraldton.
[16] On 24 April 2019, the AEC referred Culleton's Senate nomination form to the Australian Federal Police "to examine if a false declaration has been made under provisions of the Criminal Code Act 1995, relating to his status as an undischarged bankrupt and the prima facie disqualification of such persons to be chosen or to sit as a Senator or Member of the House of Representatives under section 44(iii) of the Constitution".
[18][19] In May 2019, the AEC determined that Culleton's Party was eligible for public funding, despite a bankrupt being "incapable of being chosen" as a member of Parliament.
[20] On 8 May 2019, a group of intoxicated Great Australian Party supporters campaigning outside a polling booth in Cockburn, WA verbally abused a 70 year old woman and her husband.
[21] The Party's other Senate candidate in Western Australia at the 2019 election was Wayne Glew, a former police officer who is a "self-proclaimed expert of the constitution".
The Supreme Court found that his invention "offered no benefit over existing fuel systems" and that he had engaged in "deceptive and misleading conduct".
[27] On 12 February 2021, Culleton announced that controversial former celebrity chef Pete Evans had joined the party and would be the candidate for the Senate in New South Wales at the next federal election.