Palmer out to show there is strength in numbers Alliance: Clive Palmer. West Australian senator-elect Wayne Dropulich has joined Clive Palmer's balance of power alliance. It is understood Mr Dropulich, of the Australian Sports Party, will attend Mr Palmer's speech to the National Press Club in Canberra on Tuesday. Mr Dropulich, who scraped into a Senate seat after the WA recount - but may not survive the expected poll re-run - will be joined by the Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party's senator-elect Victorian Ricky Muir. Sports Party's Wayne Dropulich. Photo: Philip Gostelow Mr Muir announced in October that he would vote with the Palmer United senators-elect Glenn Lazarus and Jacqui Lambie. At the Press Club, Mr Muir and Mr Dropulich will sit with Glenn Druery, the so-called "preference whisperer" responsible for the preference swap deals that enabled the rise of micro parties in the next Senate. Mr Druery, who describes himself as a "political consultant" for independent and micro party politicians, brokered the deal that led Mr Muir to join forces with the Palmer United Party. Mr Dropulich would add a fourth vote to the Palmer bloc after the loss of PUP candidate Zhenya Wang in WA. The presence of Mr Muir and Mr Dropulich on Tuesday, with Mr Lazarus and Ms Lambie, is supposed to send a visual message to the Abbott government about the strength and unity of the Palmer alliance. In particular, to Coalition Senate leader Eric Abetz, who has said he will negotiate with the crossbench senators on a personal basis, rather than as as a single voting group, as demanded by the alliance. Mr Palmer has promised a "very, very, very cold winter" when the new Senate sits from next July if Prime Minister Tony Abbott does not start taking his alliance seriously. The government has already torpedoed a request to pool office and resources and legislative advisers among the Palmer bloc. Mr Palmer, who flew into Canberra on a commercial flight on Monday "for lunch," is on a collision course with the government on a number of issues, including the government's consideration of reforms to the preference voting system that would prevent micro parties getting elected in the future. He described talk of reforming the system to allow optional preferential voting as "an attack on democracy."