article_snippet.sent: Mr Gordon announced on Wednesday Mr Gordon will remain in the Queensland parliament as an independent, throwing the Government, which holds a razor-thin majority, into chaos. '
article_snippet.sent: In the last two cases where this occurred in the Queensland parliament, there was never any question raised about the member resigning.
article_snippet.sent: I can't help but think that the Queensland Government thought the Queensland Government had a little black puppet on a string.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Gordon behalf' wrote Benjamin James.
article_snippet.sent: What if Abbott had said it?'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Katter's used federal MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott as examples of independents becoming puppets for the government and sacrificing federal MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott independence, but Mr Katter's vowed Mr Gordon would not make that mistake.