Bob Katter has warned political rivals his party will be throwing every resource they have at the potential re-run senate election in Western Australia.
The outspoken Queenslander landed in WA on Tuesday to meet farmers in the state, while talking up the chances of his Australian Party in the west.
The High Court is yet to decide the fate of the candidates in the original senate election in WA, which was ruined by the revelation of 1370 lost ballots.
That prompted a petition to the Court of Disputed Returns by the Australian Electoral Commission, while Clive Palmer is seeking to have the first count - in which his candidate won a seat - declared as the official result.
Mr Katter admitted his party's efforts in the west in September were tokenistic, blaming internal party failings. In the event of a new election that would change, he said.
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"We are fighting fit and raring to go, and we intend to take that sixth spot," Mr Katter said.
"And if anyone thinks we will be left in the dust like we were last time, when the preference deals were not done, they will be in for a shock."
Mr Katter said he would have no chance in matching the monetary resources of the Liberal and Labor parties, or the Palmer United Party, but would fight with feet on the ground.
"If it is a money competition we are going to lose, but Clive's basic premise that Australia is being run by second rate, incompetent people is absolutely true," Mr Katter said.
"We will have human resources infinitely more than they have access to."
Mr Katter signalled the lack of an ethanol industry in the west, and the plight of cattle farmers given the spat with Indonesia, as potential policy platforms.
