Rob Katter wants to form an alliance with Independent Cook MP Billy Gordon because it will benefit his own constituency, he said.
Mr Katter said on Wednesday that unproven allegations of domestic violence and tax avoidance levelled against Mr Gordon were overshadowing the real business of parliament to the detriment of Queenslanders.
He said he helped block the opposition's attempt on Tuesday night to change the parliament's current voting rules because he believed Mr Gordon's vote was valid.
The motion would have forced crossbench MPs like Mr Gordon to vote before government and opposition MPs, meaning the major parties could send one of their own out of the chamber nullifying his vote.
Mr Katter said this was unnecessary political game playing.
"As far as we're concerned we see parliament is pre-occupied with the wrongdoings or otherwise of someone who hasn't been charged with anything yet," he told the ABC.
"To me he's a number in parliament and he's a member for Cook at the moment and we have a lot of aligned issues ... so we can champion some issues for rural parts of Queensland that have been forgotten for a long time."
Mr Katter said issues such as drought assistance, the creation of an ethanol biofuels industry, sugar marketing, roads infrastructure, and high unemployment were all important to the seat of Cook and his own seat of Mt Isa.
"Those are the sort of things that we can help Queensland with at the moment so we're talking to Billy and saying where do you stand on those and if we come out on common ground on that then I think that's a good thing for Queensland."
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