United Australia Party's first member of Parliament Member for Gaven Alex Douglas. Clive Palmer's United Australia Party has its first member of Parliament. As expected, the member for Gaven, Alex Douglas, announced he would be joining the party in parliament on Tuesday morning. In a day where the government released the full commission of audit report and its response, the news did not cause many ripples in the press gallery but Mr Douglas used his speech to say he expected more members to join him soon. Fellow LNP defector Carl Judge is believed to have also signed up to the party. Dr Douglas said UAP would be an "inclusive" party, which would provide the public with "better representatives and a party through which they could be represented fully." Dr Douglas resigned from the LNP in November last year, claiming it no longer held the principles he aspired to as a member of parliament. He told parliament the UAP "would be a party which followed the principles once espoused and focussed on by the LNP and representing the joint interests of its members and constituents." "The UAP will grow and we welcome anyone who is sick of being stood over, threatened, dictated to and who wants to work collectively in a representative democratic party," he said. Dr Douglas echoed party leader Clive Palmer's comments from last week, saying the UAP would run candidates in "every seat for the coming federal election including the Senate in each state." In January Dr Douglas floated the idea of creating his own political party and recruiting Mr Judge. The pair defected in the same week in November with Mr Judge locked out of the LNP party room unless he swore 100 per cent loyalty to the government. He decided to leave citing his belief the LNP were not delivering on its election promises. Dr Douglas quit after accusing the government of undermining him by removing him as chair of the ethics committee. His wife, former Gold Coast mayoral candidate Susie Douglas, stood next to Mr Palmer as he announced the formotion of the UAP party last week. She has been named the UAP executive director. With Bridie Jabour