LNP undecided on One Nation preferences

Queensland's LNP is yet to determine how it will preference One Nation candidates, with all sides now battling each other on the election campaign trail.

File picture of One Nation's Malcolm Roberts and Pauline Hanson

Pauline Hanson will campaign in Queensland for One Nation candidates, who include Malcolm Roberts. (AAP)

Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls says his party is yet to decide how it will preference One Nation candidates as Pauline Hanson jets into Queensland to join the campaign trail and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk seeks a fresh start.

Senator Hanson is due to return from a parliamentary delegation to India on Sunday night ready to campaign in the state election as it enters its second week.

On the Sunshine Coast to promote his party's strategy to slash power prices, Mr Nicholls on Sunday said the LNP would take a number of factors into consideration when deciding how to preference candidates from the minority right-wing party.

He said the LNP would wait until nominations close on Tuesday and local candidates and MPs had been consulted before reaching a decision.

"We'll be making a decision in relation to that on a seat-by-seat basis once we know who all the candidates are," he told reporters.

"Our decision making will be based on the advice we receive back from the candidates and the MPs in those seats and what the nominees and the other people who are in those contests are promoting.

"There's no one criteria. It will be based on what's happening in those seats."

Senator Hanson's popularity has cast a shadow over the major parties with the latest poll showing neither Labor nor the LNP is likely to win a majority in the 93-seat parliament on November 25.

A Galaxy poll published in the Sunday Mail showed there was growing concern over One Nation holding the balance of power, with 53 per cent of voters believing Queensland would go backwards if it did.

This is up from 49 per cent when voters were asked the same question nine months ago.

The One Nation so-called "battler bus" will begin its tour of regional Queensland on Monday with Senator Hanson on board.

Meanwhile, Ms Palaszczuk left Brisbane on Sunday afternoon and will seek to reset her campaign after revealing her partner Shaun Drabsch worked on an application for a federal government loan to Adani.

The premier on Friday told reporters Mr Drabsch, who works for PriceWaterhouse Coopers, had worked on the application for a $1 billion loan to the mining giant under the Commonwealth's Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund.

She was forced to defend her decision to veto the loan at the weekend after facing questions she had defied the Integrity Commissioner's advice by doing so.


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