KENNEDY independent MP Bob Katter has arrived in Canberra after drafting his own list of proposals to take to Labor and the coalition.

Mr Katter said for every item on the list, he had to drop three or four others, which broke his heart, as they were for his north  Queensland electorate of Kennedy. 

But at this point he had to look at the big picture for  Australia, he said. 

"I will be drafting a set of proposals, suggestions that I will be putting up. It`s not good enough to say we want a different  paradigm for Australia," Mr Katter told reporters. 

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He is one of three country independents set to determine which  party forms a minority government. 

Mr Katter said some measures on his list, which will be released on Tuesday, would be good for north Queensland. 

"But every single one of them is a good thing to happen for  Australia," he said. 

"I would hope that we will be used... As an excuse by a Julia Gillard or a Tony Abbott to do the right thing.`` 

Mr Katter said he could see good arguments for backing both  Labor and the coalition. 

"You live in a paradigm of Liberal or Labor - I don't. I live in  a paradigm of north Queensland and I will be voting for north Queensland,`` he said. 

Mr Katter said he had received no threats as yet and dismissed intimidation of his fellow independents as a side issue. 

"I don't think it's very helpful in this environment for that sort of stupidity to be taking place," he said. 

"We must come out of this with a different paradigm for rural  Australia and if we don`t all three of us will have failed in our  duty to the people that have really stuck their neck out a mile for  us."

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