Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and rival Tim Nicholls have ruled out forming a coalition with One Nation as the right-wing outfit continues to overshadow the major parties in the early days of election campaigning.
Pauline Hanson's party may end up with the balance of power after the November 25 poll, with both Labor and the LNP on a low primary vote of around 30 per cent.
The Labor premier says she'd rather lose government than make a deal, while Mr Nicholls has refused to rule out a deal that would guarantee supply.
But One Nation has warned the major parties they won't claim victory without its support.
"This is the elephant in the room - they're both saying they will not do a deal with One Nation," the party's state leader, Steve Dickson, told ABC radio.
"(But) it's like drinking water. Without it, you die. At the end of the day, you're going to have to come and have a drink. We're holding all the water."
Ms Hanson, who is currently in India as part of a parliamentary delegation, says her party will preference all sitting members last, except the "good, hard-working" ones who meet Mr Dickson's standards.
Maverick Labor MP Jo-Anne Miller, based in the Ipswich seat of Bundamba where One Nation has some solid support, is one they are not even challenging.
"I don't want to get rid of good, hard-working members of parliament whichever side of politics they're on, but that's a decision I'll make when I sit down with Steve," Ms Hanson told Sydney's 2GB Radio.
Mr Nicholls has said his LNP would not share power with Ms Hanson's party.
"I have been clear about it, there is no coalition, no shared ministry and there are no deals with One Nation," he told ABC TV.
But when pressed on whether that would include guaranteeing supply, he repeated his answer, but added he intended to win the 47 seats to form a majority government.
He swiftly took to the hustings in One Nation heartland on Monday, heading to the electorate which Ms Hanson almost won at the last state poll.
Attempting a political comeback at the time, Ms Hanson fell by less than 200 preference votes to toppling LNP member Ian Rickuss in the rural seat of Lockyer, west of Ipswich.
He pledged to lift the payroll tax threshold by $25,000 a year over the next decade as part of a broader economic package to stimulate 500,000 new jobs.
Meanwhile, the premier used her time in Proserpine to announce an extra 3,500 nurses and midwives would be hired over the next four years if Labor hangs onto power.
The $167 million pledge will also employ "nurse navigators" to provide high-level care for chronic patients.
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