Palmer United Party candidate Glenn Lazarus officially snared one of Queensland's six senate spots. Source: AAP
CLIVE Palmer's party is on track to hold the balance of power in the Senate with star candidate Glenn Lazarus officially snaring one of Queensland's six spots.
The former league prop will join the Palmer United Party's Tasmanian candidate Jacqui Lambie in the upper house, and possibly Zhenya Wang who is on track to win a Senate seat for the party in Western Australia.
The Australian Electoral Commission announced the six Queensland senators on Wednesday.
They include the Liberal National Party's James McGrath, who was the campaign director behind the party's mammoth win at the Queensland election in 2012.
As opposition leader, Campbell Newman was forced to reprimand Mr McGrath for his role in the Labor dirt-files affair.
During the state election campaign Mr Newman was embarrassed by revelations his own party had hired a former ALP staffer to dig dirt on Queensland Labor MPs.
The files contained salacious details about Labor MPs' sexual leanings and habits, among other things.
On Wednesday, Mr Newman praised his former campaign director.
"James did a tremendous job during last year's state election campaign, and I know he will be a terrific advocate for the people of Queensland as a member of the LNP Senate team," he said in a statement.
It wasn't the first time Mr McGrath found himself at the centre of political controversy.
He was previously an adviser to London Lord Mayor Boris Johnson but left over comments that embroiled his then boss in a race row.
The other Queensland senators are Ian MacDonald and Matthew Canavan, from the LNP, and Labor's Chris Ketter and Claire Moore.
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