Teena McQueen, the former Liberal Party vice-president who defected to One Nation in May, has died from an illness on Wednesday. She was a long-serving Liberal member before making the switch, which she blamed on the party's decline beginning when Tony Abbott lost the prime ministership. Abbott, now Liberal president, called her a good friend who 'sometimes put loyalty ahead of judgment.' Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, noted McQueen's ability to 'see through pretence' and pick out those who were 'all hat and no cattle.' NSW opposition leader Kellie Sloane called her a 'force of nature.' McQueen, a regular on Sky News and a guest at Trump's Mar-a-Lago with Rinehart, was considered divisive even within Liberal ranks - in 2022, Senator Simon Birmingham called her position untenable after she celebrated 'lefties' leaving the party.