Senator Jacqui Lambie at work earlier this month.

"She came to the interview with The Weekly in jeans she picked up for $8 from Kmart, with a soft pack of tobacco in her handbag and a determination to be heard," goes a scene-setting paragraph in the new issue of Australian's Women's Weekly, featuring a revealing interview with everyone's favourite/not-favourite part of Question Time/Q&A panels, Senator Jaqcui Lambie.

The outspoken Tasmanian senator - who last month resigned from the Palmer United Party obver a public falling out with the party's leader, and now sits as an independent - poses in the latest issue of the magazine with an Australian flag draped over her shoulders, an apparent homage to her hero Pauline Hanson.

True to form, the feature has some amazing quotes. Along with revealing her love of Botox ("It's addictive... It's like, Oh My God, here comes a wrinkle again.") and her dwindling credit card debt ("'I'm still renting,' she says, but the Senate job pays '$195,000 plus, plus, plus' so she is now saving for a house..." goes the piece), Lambie saved her best for the PM.


"Females scare the crap out of him, but he's going to have to grow a pair because he has to deal with me," she said.

"My vote's important so if I was Tony Abbott, I'd be saying: 'Hey, Jacqui Lambie, let's have a cup of coffee," she told the magazine. "But he can't do that, can he? Because he doesn't wear the pants. The female in his office (chief of staff) Peta Credlin – she's the one that wears the pants.

"That's another thing with those blokes from the all-boy schools: they can only deal with one powerful female at a time. They need that powerful female to push the other females away.

"So now the bastard is saying 'I don't have to meet with Jacqui Lambie'. But guess what? He does have to meet with me, because we are going to have to work together. Fair enough, he got elected - but I got elected, too."

But wait, there's more. During the interview, the Senator colourfully recalled her first meeting with the PM earlier this year.

"Tony Abbott has no social skills," she says. "To me, he's like a cardboard cut-out. You put him here, you move him there. He told me how he had injured himself during some fire-fighting exercise. I had to stop myself from saying: 'Harden up, girlfriend'.'"

Ah, some entertaining reading for your next doctor's office visit. The mag's issue hit newstands today.

Source: Australian Women's Weekly, News