Katter’s Australian Party is “not in the business of tearing governments down” and is holding talks with Queensland’s embattled Labor government, Robbie Katter says.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk sacked Cook MP Billy Gordon on Sunday over domestic violence allegations and his previously undisclosed criminal record.

Without the MP’s support, Labor no longer has enough seats in parliament to govern.

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But KAP MP Robbie Katter says he’s been in talks with Labor about securing his party’s support in parliament.

“We are making progress with the ALP, at the moment we’re not there, where we could show them support,” Mr Katter told AAP.

“But we’d like to be optimistic about that because we don’t want to be in the business of tearing down governments every six months or every year.”

He wants Labor’s commitment on improving regional roads, water development, mandating ethanol in fuel and setting up a rural development bank.

Labor currently holds 43 seats, the Liberal National Party holds 42, KAP has two seats and the last two are held by independent Speaker Peter Wellington and Mr Gordon.

The opposition LNP has already promised to act on the KAP’s key issues, Mr Katter said.

He added that he predicted his party would hold a powerful position.

“We said from the start in these hung parliament negotiations that we were pretty sure there was going to be some hiccups along the road,” Mr Katter said.

“That’s why we always felt we’d be in a powerful position which ever way the cards fell.”

– AAP