Palmer 'induced' rebel NT trio: Newman

QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman has accused federal MP Clive Palmer of inducing three Northern Territory MPs to join his political party.

Mr Newman says questions need to be asked about what cash, jobs and financial support Mr Palmer offered the MPs to jump ship.

"This is a man who tried to buy a government, my government," Mr Newman told reporters.

"We said 'go away', we said 'we're not for sale'."

"I ask what inducements were offered to these three MPs? What promises, what inducements were offered to them to jump ship?"

Mr Palmer on Sunday declared that Alison Anderson would be chief minister after the next territory election, after announcing that she, Larissa Lee and Francis Xavier Kurrupuwu had joined his Palmer United Party (PUP).

The three indigenous MPs quit the ruling Country Liberal Party at the beginning of April as a result of a rift between Ms Anderson and Chief Minister Adam Giles, saying they wanted to create their own regional political party.

Mr Newman's extraordinary spray came after a journalist asked Prime Minister Tony Abbott about the mining magnate calling Mr Giles a liar on national television.

That's what Mr Palmer said about everybody, Mr Newman said.

"As far as Mr Palmer goes everyone else is wrong and he's always right," he told reporters.

Mr Newman said it was time for Mr Palmer to stop spending money on election campaigning, adding that the PUP leader didn't "seem to have the money" to fulfil environment obligations at his Townsville nickel refinery and repair his Sunshine Coast resort.

After the trio moved to the crossbenches, Mr Giles accused them of driving a wedge between black and white Territorians.

But they argued the NT government, which ended 11 years of Labor rule when it won the 2012 state election, had not honoured its election commitments to the bush.

Mr Giles singled out Ms Anderson, saying she had form when it came to walking out on parties.

She became a parliamentarian for Labor in 2005 and in 2008 was appointed to cabinet. The following year, she left Labor after a dispute over indigenous housing and sat as an independent until 2011, when she joined the Country Liberal Party.

After it seized power, she was appointed minister for indigenous advancement.

But six months later in March last year, Mr Giles - Australia's first indigenous head of government - abolished the Department of Indigenous Advancement, saying he wanted his entire administration to focus on indigenous affairs.

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