Qld mayor in race for Joyce's Senate seat

A LIBERAL National Party preselection battle is brewing over who will fill Barnaby Joyce's shoes as a Queensland senator.

Western Downs Mayor Ray Brown has put forward his name to replace Senator Joyce, who is contesting the House of Representatives seat of New England.

Former NSW MP Larry Anthony is also tipped to run for the Senate seat, as well as former LNP treasurer Barry O'Sullivan.

Mr Brown, who joined the LNP only last week, has served in local government for 24 years and will lobby for preselection on his credentials as a local politician.

He sits on Queensland's GasFields Commission set up by the state government to improve relations between farmers and the coal seam gas industry.

He has welcomed coal seam gas and mining development on the Western Downs, but says he'll fight to ensure miners are held to account.

"If you speak to the energy sector I'm terribly green. If you speak to the Greens, I'm terribly brown," he told AAP.

The new Senate candidate will be decided by the LNP's state council on May 25 in Mackay.

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