Farrer votes 2019: Clive Palmer links Kevin Mack to Labor, Greens and GetUp in Albury visit

The United Australia Party was in town to support his Farrer candidate Mike Rose, who wants the Murray Darling Basin Plan ripped up and re-written to support struggling farmers, particularly in the southern irrigation areas of the electorate.

Mr Mack has been pushing for the plan to be paused in the face of zero water allocations, but Mr Palmer said this position and other views were shared by other independents, who he claimed were "ideologically hunting in a pack" with the backing of GetUp.

Voices for Indi independent candidate Helen Haines distanced herself from any links to GetUp at The Border Mail candidates forum.

"I've seen across Australia independent candidates standing up and being supported by GetUp," Mr Palmer said.

"There is a growing pattern of that happening.

"If Kevin Mack really cared about the people of the region he wouldn't be saying we should keep the plan or saying we should be pausing the plan.

"It is very similar to policies the Greens and GetUp are adopting right across Australia. Ideologically they are hunting in a pack."

Mr Mack said: "These comments are reasons why people shouldn't vote for the United Australia Party.

"At the end of the day it is all about Clive."

Mr Palmer said the plan had failed and needed to be scrapped.

"We can't be like an ostrich with our head in the sand," he said.

"People are dying because of suicide, people are going broke, it is being abused, there are millions of dollars flowing out to people it shouldn't be, we've got overseas investment activity taking place.

"All of these things weren't in the plan, but now that we know about them, we've got to address them."

Mr Rose agreed with his leader's sentiments on the need for the plan to be scrapped.

"It was very political how the plan came about," he said.

"There are a lot of loopholes in it and to try and fix the plan would take longer than it would to scrap it and start a new one."

Mr Palmer also used the media conference to re-affirm a zonal taxation where people living 200km outside of a capital city would receive a 20 per cent tax cut under a UAP government and defended his non-payment of mining worker entitlements.

"All the workers in Queensland Nickel have been paid by the Commonwealth government and they have been paid by me for the balance," he said.

"We put $7 million in the account the other day.

"I'm a shareholder in a company owns shares in Queensland Nickel. If you are a shareholder in BHP, do you pay all their workers? Are you responsible for all their debts if you own shares in BHP?

"Of course not so there never has been a legal liability for us to pay anything."

Mr Palmer said the major parties were envious of the advertising blitz he had embarked on to help candidates such as himself in the senate and Mr Rose get elected.

"We have mounted a campaign in the last 90 days which is the equivalent of what the Liberal and Labor parties can muster," he said.

"They all complain about how much money we are spending, but they have spent $50 or $60 million on every election nearly for the last 10 years.

"Of course they don't like someone competing with them on an equal footing."