Queensland

Fourth LNP member defects to One Nation

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A fourth Queensland LNP member has quit the party to join One Nation.

Former Logan MP Michael Pucci quit the LNP at the weekend to join One Nation as its campaign director, News Corp reports.

He is the fourth Queensland MP to defect to One Nation, joining former MPs Sam Cox and Neil Symes, as well as the member for Buderim Steve Dickson.

While the reported news may be good for Pauline Hanson's party, it comes not long after another Queensland candidate was dumped over a controversial post on his website.

Peter Rogers was dropped as the party's candidate for the seat of Mulgrave on Friday, over a post on his page claiming the Port Arthur massacre and the drowning death of a Syrian toddler were made up.

Following the dumping of Mr Rogers - the third One Nation hopeful either dumped or withdrawn since December - Ms Hanson has said she's in control, and won't let rogue candidates destroy her party's chances.

"No one, no one is going to take it over and destroy what I want to achieve, what I want to do," she said.

However Queensland Premier Annastasia Palaczszuk said she was "not at all" concerned about the threat of One Nation in the state.

"It is ... my Labor government that is delivering for the people of Queensland," she said.