"I WILL fight like a tiger."

It's with those words Steve Dickson, a man already planning for his first 100 days in government, kicks off our interview.

The LNP defector is now Queensland leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party.

He is also one of the true believers.

Mr Dickson refuses to rule out the chance One Nation could win government in its own right in Queensland's upcoming State Election, let alone hold the balance of power to form a Coalition government with one of the major parties.

"It is global," he says of the conservative political phenomenon sweeping the globe in the form of Brexit, Trump, Hanson and more.

Like a bodysurfer waiting for a set, Mr Dickson is hoping he's timed his push to perfection to ride the crest of a right-wing wave into the state's top seat.

Or at the very least, dictate who will take the title of Premier.

"You make sure you get the best possible outcomes," he said when asked what he sees holding the balance of power to be about.

While his new role may take him further afield than previously as Buderim MP, he's adamant the Sunshine Coast will remain firmly in his focus.

"The Sunshine Coast has missed out for a long time," he said.

"Why don't we get all the infrastructure that has gone to the Gold Coast?"

Mr Dickson suffered a swing of 13% against him at the 2015 State Election where, despite retaining their stranglehold on the Sunshine Coast, the LNP was brought to its knees in a devastating defeat barely three years after romping home to form a 78-seat majority government.

But he says he's now free of the shackles of the LNP, despite many claiming he'd broken their trust when he denounced his former party and joined the throngs of the flame-haired fish and chip shop owner's party.

"I'm still here. I'm a little bit hard to kill," he says, recalling surviving the raid launched in his own backyard in 2015 by the Palmer United Party in the shape of rugby league legend Glenn Lazarus' wife, Tess.

But the time for reflection is over, with Independent Speaker Peter Wellington announcing his departure at the next election and a pending seat redistribution working against the sitting government, there's every chance Queenslanders could hit the polls sooner rather than later.

While he may be the eternal optimist at a state level, Mr Dickson said he would be foolish to consider himself anything but an underdog in Buderim, one of the state's strongest LNP seats.

He says he has put his seat on the line for what he believes in.

Mr Dickson had trawled through 80 candidate profiles as of last week, vetting hopeful One Nation representatives before submitting them to a SWOT analysis, taxation and police checks.

A score of 60% in the strengths and weaknesses analysis is the minimum requirement to be considered to join Mr Dickson's One Nation ranks in the sunshine state, although he concedes their resources are limited, which makes the offers of assistance he says have come flooding in all the more valuable.

So what does a One Nation led or One Nation-hybrid government look like?

Mr Dickson assures there will be no hesitation to tackle the big issues, questioning how Parliament got to the point where the legal age of anal sex was being debated more heavily than homelessness, economic and nation-building issues.

Taking water to western Queensland will be one of the platforms the party stands on.

"Why shouldn't we be the food bowl of the world?" he said.

Legalising use of whole-plant cannabis products for medicinal purposes, creating an amnesty for those currently treading a legal tightrope, is another policy he would tackle almost immediately, as well as levelling the playing field for the taxi industry against ride share businesses.

"We're not going to sell assets. One Nation will not be selling major assets in Queensland," he stated.

The ALP and LNP have both recently ruled out forming a Coalition with One Nation, but Mr Dickson said he felt they were in a strong position, based on internal and previous polling and future preference deals, to either unseat sitting MPs themselves or help others wipe out major party representatives.

"We can put someone else in that seat," he said of Inala, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's own seat, if One Nation preferenced against the state's leader.

"We can do that right across the state."

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But as far as Mr Dickson saw it, they needed to win 44 seats plus his - provided the election was called before the redistribution -and that remained their main focus at present.

If it came to forming a coalition government, Mr Dickson was adamant he expected One Nation MPs to be in the cabinet room.

"If anybody honestly believes that we're an offshoot of the LNP... look at the way they have treated people over the last few weeks," he said of the LNP's decision not to entertain a One Nation coalition, a move Mr Dickson said was effectively ignoring a quarter of Queensland voters.

"People say 'you're just a bunch of racists and bigots'," Mr Dickson continued.

"One Nation welcomes people from all over the world.

"We don't expect you to say 'g'day mate' on the day you arrive, but eventually you probably will."

With the recent South Australian and New South Wales blackouts dominating headlines recently, Mr Dickson threw his support behind baseload power supplies being created in the state's Far North, but added he believed there was room to use all energy sources.

Delivering power back to the police service, tougher prisons and peppercorn rents for community groups to utilise unused state assets are a few other policy changes he would like to tackle.

He reassures that Steve Dickson, the man, hasn't changed, that he'll still work for his constituents, and impressed the importance of the sub-sea cable to the Sunshine Coast's future.

So why should people vote for Mr Dickson and his fellow candidates when it comes polling day?

"They've (major parties) left the people behind," he said.

"We will put people before politics.

"If it was me I would've called it (election) today."