Is seasoned Springborg LNP's fresh face?

At age 21, Lawrence Springborg became the youngest person to be elected to Queensland parliament.

Now, more than two decades later, the question is: can he really provide a fresh start for the Liberal National party?

The answer immediately rests with party members when they meet on Saturday morning to craft a new leadership team following Premier Campbell Newman's election defeat.

In the confusion after Queensland's inconclusive poll, Mr Springborg has stressed he is the only one authorised by the party to negotiate with crossbenchers, while stopping short of confirming a tilt at the LNP leadership.

Nevertheless, the health minister is largely considered the preferred choice for the party faithful.

If he does seize the LNP mantle, it will not really be a career high point 25 years in the making. After two previous stints as opposition leader, there will certainly be a sense of deja vu.

Mr Springborg's political life began when he won the seat of Carnarvon as a 21-year-old.

The "boy candidate" switched to Warwick at the 1992 election and has remained in the safe conservative electorate, which became Southern Downs in 2001.

He proved his mettle by serving as government whip between 1996 and 1998, and was made deputy Nationals leader in 1999.

He lost the position after the 2001 election but returned as leader two years later.

Defeat as opposition leader followed at the polls in 2004 - for all his "topless ironing shot" efforts in trying to woo female voters - and in mid-2006 from a thwarted attempt at a Liberal-Nationals merger.

Another state election loss followed in 2006, prompting Mr Springborg to resign, only to return as leader once more before the Liberal National party was formed two years later.

But Mr Springborg stepped down after a third defeat in 2009 to serve as deputy to John-Paul Langbroek.

He resigned that position when Mr Newman became the extra-parliamentary leader in 2011.

Whether these years spent ascending and descending the party hierarchy will get Mr Springborg closer to the keys to the premier's office remains to be seen.

On Thursday, he said talk of a leadership nominations are "a matter for conversations with my colleagues over the next 24 to 36 hours".

Conversations for coming hours that have, arguably, been coming for years.