One Nation scoffs at premier's boycott vow

One Nation says the Queensland premier's vow to send her own party into opposition rather than accept the support of Pauline Hanson's party is rubbish.

One Nation has scoffed at the Queensland premier's claim she'd rather send Labor into opposition than work with Pauline Hanson's party to govern the state.

The party's Queensland leader Steve Dickson says Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her LNP rival Tim Nicholls will do whatever it takes to form government.

"You know, and I know, and the people of Queensland know that both Tim Nicholls and Annastacia Palaszczuk would drag themselves over broken glass to sit in charge of the Queensland government," Mr Dickson has told ABC radio.

He said the premier promised no deals before the last election, but went on to do exactly that by accepting the support of independent Speaker Peter Wellington, and granting the Katter party concessions in return for supply and confidence.

"She said she wouldn't do a deal with anybody before the last election, and she did at the last election," Mr Dickson said.

He made the comments after he and the Labor and LNP leaders participated in a forum of 100 undecided voters, with the premier declared the winner after convincing 60 per cent of them to vote for her.

Just 12 per cent said they'd support Mr Nicholls, with 10 per cent backing Mr Dickson and 18 per cent remaining undecided.

The premier told the audience she would stand on her principles and there was no way she'd ever do a deal with One Nation if there was a hung parliament because the party would bring chaos and confusion to Queensland.

"And if that means going into opposition, we'll go into opposition," Ms Palaszczuk said.

Mr Nicholls drew howls from the audience when he failed to say if he'd work with One Nation if the party ended up holding the balance of power.

"We will deal with the parliament and the elected representatives the people of Queensland put forward," he told voters.

Deputy Premier Jackie Trad on Friday said voters could trust Ms Palaszczuk's no-deals pledge, and downplayed what happened after the last election.

"What Annastacia did is she entered into an arrangement with Peter Wellington ... who came to the premier and said he wanted to provide stability to the people of Queensland going forwards," Ms Trad told the ABC.

She said Mr Wellington had sought Labor's support for reasonable issues that were important to Queensland.

"The things that One Nation are on about are not things that we are prepared to deal with them on."


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