While Community Strong Australia will remain leaderless, the party’s constitution says its two MPs oversee who is in and who is out.

Allegra Spender, Sophie Scamps and Nicolette Boele are understood to be open to the idea but other crossbenchers are firmly against

The former Goldstein MP is considering an offer to join a proposed teal initiative, but so far, Zali Steggall appears to be the only crossbencher to sign up.