Bob Katter has said that Anthony Albanese will make a good Labor leader after blaming Tanya Plibersek for losing the 'unlosable' election.
The conservative north Queensland MP said the 56-year-old is capable of putting 'ordinary blokes' at ease and understands the Queensland economy.
Mr Katter said he was impressed by Mr Albanese when the Labor MP visited his electorate of Kennedy in 2017.
Bob Katter (pictured in parliament) has said that Anthony Albanese will make a good Labor leader
Mr Albanese, who holds the Sydney inner-west seat of Grayndler, is favourite to be Labor leader
'Albo has been an ordinary worker - as have I,' Mr Katter told the Daily Telegraph.
'The night I saw him at the Hughenden pub I was amazed. Graziers, knockabout blokes, they were all equally at ease with Albo,' he said.
Mr Albanese is favourite to be the next Labor leader after Ms Plibersek dropped out, saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.
Mr Katter, who quit the National Party in 2001 and now leads his own Katter's Australian Party, blamed Ms Plibersek for Labor's defeat.
He said she was out of touch with Queensland voters, and that her stance against coal mines alienated voters in the regions.
'Tanya Plibersek ran amok,' the Katters Australian Party MP for the vast north Queensland electorate of Kennedy told https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1130054910542659584 on Sunday night.
'She was out there denigrating the coal industry and saying it will phase out.
'To say that on the eve of an election in which there are six marginal seats in north Queensland in the coal belt is absolutely disastrous.'
Mr Katter said on Monday that Mr Albanese 'wouldn’t have made the criminal mistakes Labor did in this election.'
Ms Plibersek has been vocal in her opposition to the Adani coal mine in Queensland
Labor was belted in north Queensland, losing the Townsville-based seat of Herbert with a 7.6 per cent swing against it, three years after Cathy O'Toole won by just 37 votes.
The National Party also kept its most marginal seat of Capricornia, centred around Rockhampton, with assistant minster Michelle Landry scoring a 10.7 per cent swing in her favour.
In neighbouring Dawson, taking in Mackay, renegade backbencher George Christensen celebrated a 11.3 per cent swing to him, despite media coverage of him spending months of the year in Manila.
The Gladstone-based seat of Flynn delivered a 5.2 per cent swing to fellow Nationals MP Ken O'Dowd, as Labor was punished in
