WA National Tony Crook has attended a meeting of the federal National Party in Canberra where he has outlined his goals and objectives.
Mr Crook defeated the Liberal's Wilson Tuckey to become the member for O'Connor and since then has said he will sit outside the coalition, probably on the cross benches.
National Party leader Warren Truss welcomed Mr Crook.
He said Mr Crook told the meeting he wanted to see a return of more regional wealth back to the regions.
In particular he called for the commonwealth to match the $860 million provided by the WA state government to regions under its Royalties for Regions program.
Mr Truss said the coalition supported a greater return of regional generated wealth.
He said the royalties program had been popular and successful in WA and was delivering real results.
"And we want to deliver similar results," but Mr Truss acknowledged this proposal had been rejected at the Nationals' annual conference in June.
But he said "we want to make sure there is a better return to the regions."
Mr Truss said the federal government did not collect much by way of royalties.
"So it's not practical for us to have a program that's identical to the WA program. So we have to look at more innovative way to be able to deliver similar benefits," he said.
