Annastacia Palaszczuk has vowed to govern for all Queenslanders when she is finally declared the winner of Saturday's historic state election.
The Labor leader is still a couple of seats from claiming an outright majority in the 89-seat parliament, but the Liberal National Party (LNP) won't be able to form government.
Independent MP Peter Wellington says he's happy to help Labor form a minority government in Queensland.
"There's no way in the world I'd want to part of a team or support (Deputy Premier) Jeff Seeney or (Attorney-General) Jarrod Bleijie or those style of ministers to continue what we've seen for the last three years," Mr Wellington told AAP.
Katter's Australian Party state leader Robbie Katter said his party had a list of priorities and would work with whichever leader was prepared to come to the table.
"We'll have a look at what the government's priorities are and, in consultation with Peter Wellington, we'll discuss what we think are the best outcomes for our electorates and Queensland," Mr Katter told AAP.
Counting continued on Sunday and the final result should be known early this week. Campbell Newman, who no longer has a seat in the parliament, will remain as caretaker premier until then.
The LNP, which lost at least 30 seats in Saturday's election rout, laid low on Sunday.
But Ms Palaszczuk was out and about, soaking up the adoration of the true believers at a barbecue in a park in the seat of Morayfield, north of Brisbane, which Labor's Mark Ryan won with a swing of more than 18 per cent.
When Ms Palaszczuk arrived the crowd started chanting "Annastacia" and rushed to shake her hand.
"Thank you very much for your support, it's just been absolutely amazing the support right across the length and breadth of Queensland," she told the crowd.
"It's extremely humbling and we are going to restore good government to this state. We will govern for all of you."
Meanwhile, a shell-shocked LNP will begin the unenviable task of choosing an opposition leader to head the party on the wrong side of the parliament floor.
Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney, Health Minister Lawrence Springborg, Treasurer Tim Nicholls and Transport Minister Scott Emerson are all potential candidates.
Senior MPs shied away from the spotlight as they licked their wounds on Sunday, with Mr Newman only making a brief stop at Parliament House and the government's executive building to collect his belongings, before quickly driving himself off again.
LNP President Bruce McIver has promised the party would conduct an independent, external review of what went wrong.
The LNP's loss in Queensland is seen as a further blow to the prime minister, coming less than a week after the controversy surrounding his decision to give Prince Philip a knighthood, and following the ousting of the coalition in Victoria last November.
State president Bruce McIver said the troubled Abbott government played a role, not the least being the prime minister's decision to confer a knighthood on Prince Philip in the last week of the campaign.
But he accepted there was a sense among voters that the Newman government was out of touch and arrogant.
"Campbell and his team had to do a lot of hard decisions," Mr McIver said.
"Whether those decisions were accepted by the people, or the way they were done was accepted by the people, is one of the things we'll be looking at."
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Mr Newman had been a "good premier who led a good government".
Late on Sunday, the ABC website had the LNP on 39 seats, Labor on 43, KAP on two, and one independent, with four still in doubt.
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