FARMERS would get the power to shut the gate on gas and mining companies under a central campaign plank of Bob Katter's Australian Party at next year's Queensland election, which the Liberal National Party and Labor warned yesterday could end with a hung parliament.
Just a day after Mr Katter's fledgling party was formally registered in Queensland, both major parties stepped up the rhetoric against it amid polling this month showing it could draw as much as 22 per cent of the vote.
LNP parliamentary leader Jeff Seeney said the new political entity could split the conservative vote, with the balance of power held by newly-elected candidates from the federal independent MP's party.
The Australian
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