Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has played down the impact Pauline Hanson is expected to have on the next state election.
That's despite former Labor premier Peter Beattie warning that preferences from Ms Hanson's One Nation, which plans to stand candidates in every seat, could determine who wins the poll, due in early 2018.
Mr Beattie said the state government's reintroduction of compulsory preferential voting, which forces voters to number every box rather than just marking "1" against their preferred candidate, could place even more power in Ms Hanson's hands.
However, Ms Palaszczuk insisted she'd have more influence than Ms Hanson over whether her minority Labor government was re-elected.
"At the end of the day, Queenslanders at the next election will judge the parties on how they deliver for Queensland," she said.
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"That is going to be the key to the next election ... whether or not the parties connect with people and whether or not the parties deliver for people.
"And my government is out there each and every day listening to Queenslanders, making sure we deliver the very best health and education services across the state."
Her sentiments were echoed by Queensland Labor state secretary Evan Moorhead, who said the implications described by Mr Beattie were overstated.
"You can have a whole lot of conjecture about preferences and flows here and flows there; the story for politicians is to get out there and convince people to vote for them number one," he said.
Mr Beattie said compulsory preferential voting was likely to hand power to One Nation in regional seats.
"Green preferences will influence the outcome of a handful of inner city Brisbane federal and state seats but One Nation preferences could well determine who wins the next Queensland state election," he wrote in a column for The Courier-Mail.
He pointed to the fact almost 30 per cent of voters in the federal seat of Flynn, in central Queensland, didn't vote for either major party.
Mr Beattie said while Flynn's country booths saw more than 10 per cent swings away from the Liberal National Party, the party regained many of the votes through preferences.
"This is an ominous sign for Labor for the next state and federal elections," he said.
Comment from Ms Hanson has been sought.
