Independent National Party MP Tony Crook's message to the people of Melbourne, Sydney and the eastern states came as he ditched plans to travel to Canberra for power sharing talks this week, and instead made plans to attend an agricultural show in rural WA.

Mr Crook, who has vowed not to join Tony Abbott's Coalition unless it meets his demands for a dramatic increase in funding for rural WA, will travel this morning to the small town of Dowerin, about two hours north-east of Perth. There he will attend the Dowerin GWN Machinery Field Days.

Mr Crook said he would wait until the remaining knife-edge seats were resolved before going to Canberra.

''We will let a bit more vote counting happen and I am going to go to the Dowerin field day tomorrow,'' he told The Age.

On top of his demand for the Commonwealth to match funding spent in rural WA under a lucrative state government scheme, Mr Crook promised during the campaign that his first act if elected would be to lodge a private members bill restoring WA's return of GST money to 100 per cent. The state recoups less than 70 per cent of the GST money it contributes.

Mr Crook said the eastern states would benefit in the long-term. ''You've just got to keep ruffling the feathers on the golden goose, making sure he is laying every year, because if the golden goose stops laying every year and starts firing blanks, then WA is not only in trouble, so are you guys in the east.''