Queensland Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington finds suggestions her youth curfew plan is racist "deeply offensive", saying she represents an Indigenous community and her husband works with Indigenous people.
The LNP will trial a night curfew for teenagers in Townsville and Cairns for six months if it's elected to state government on 31 October.
Under the plan, which is aimed at reducing crime, teens still out after curfew will be arrested by police and taken to community centres.
They will be held there until picked up by family members with parents slapped with a $250 fine each time one of their children is caught outside.
Ms Frecklington says the policy is not racist or aimed at any particular group.
"I find it deeply offensive, deeply offensive, that people are being racist. I find it offensive," she said.
Ms Frecklington said she represents the Indigenous community of Cherbourg and her husband works in Indigenous communities training juvenile offenders.
"I find it offensive that people think that this is a racism issue. This is a juvenile crime issue and it doesn't go across race."
The LNP leader also said she came up with the plan after holding numerous crime forums since 2017.
She said police in her electorate support the curfew policy as well as those across Queensland.
"I come from the South Burnett - my local coppers love this policy, in fact, they're asked for it to be extended," Ms Frecklington said.
She said she consulted with her own MPs and candidates, six of whom are currently or were previously police officers.
"We've consulted with the Queenslanders who have had their cars flogged, who have had a knife put in their face, who have had their children woken up in the middle of the night because some young juvenile kid, some crim, has actually broken into their house and waved knives around into their kids faces," Ms Frecklington said.
"We've spoken to the police officers who have had their hands tied behind their back, because they have no laws."
Deputy Premier Steven Miles laid into the opposition on Friday, saying they were benefitting from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson hitting the hustings in Rockhampton.
"Pauline Hanson is just like the LNP only in orange," he told reporters.
He said Ms Frecklington was trying to set up a minority government with support from One Nation and Clive Palmer.
The LNP leader denied the claim and said voters deserved a majority LNP government.
"Queenslanders deserve a majority government that is interested in working for them, and that's what they're going to get with a Frecklington-LNP government," she said.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will be on the hustings in the southeast on Friday afternoon following national cabinet.
