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Ex-One Nation senator Rod Culleton and co-defendant accuse magistrate of being drunk at border breach trial

The trial of former One Nation senator Rod Culleton, who allegedly breached Western Australia's hard border last year, has been adjourned after beginning in farcical circumstances when the accused requested the magistrate take a sobriety test. 

Mr Culleton and his co-accused, 57-year-old Roslyn Jane Stewart, are on trial in the Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court for allegedly failing to comply with a direction under the Emergency Management Act in March last year.

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