LNP leader Tim Nicholls slaps down Matt Canavan's 'domestic' comment

Queensland Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls has denounced LNP colleague Matt Canavan's language after the federal resources minister said a "domestic" between Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her "boyfriend" had scuppered a $1 billion loan to Adani.

Last Friday, Ms Palaszczuk accused the LNP of a "smear" campaign against her and her partner Shaun Drabsch, who worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of a team on Adani's application to the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility for a loan for its rail link.

She then announced a veto on the potential for an Adani NAIF loan, which she said was to remove doubt of any perception of a conflict of interest.

In Mackay, Senator Canavan referred to Mr Drabsch as Ms Palaszczuk's boyfriend and said: "It took me a while to believe it that a domestic could cost us thousands of jobs in regional Queensland."

"I think she has just made herself completely unelectable - she lacks all integrity and trust now because she's also gone against the Integrity Commissioner's advice," he said.

Mr Nicholls said he thought Senator Canavan's remarks were completely inappropriate.

"I've said quite clearly families should stay out of this," Mr Nicholls said.

But Mr Nicholls fell short of calling on Senator Canavan to apologise.

"That will be a matter for Senator Canavan," he said.

"I would never use that language."

Ms Palaszczuk would not be drawn on Senator Canavan's comments, despite the Labor leader being asked about it twice at a press conference on Wednesday.

"I'm not even going to dignify that with a response," she said.

The Adani issue was on the minds of voters as Ms Palaszczuk walked through Logan Hospital on Wednesday.

She spoke to Jimboomba concrete pump operator Justin Owen, who was holding his four-year-old daughter, and said: "Tell the Premier where daddy's hoping to get a job? Adani mines."

Ms Palaszczuk told reporters the government was working with a lot of resource companies in Queensland, including opening up more gas exploration.

"We recognise the jobs that it [Adani] brings, we recognise that, we've always said it needs to stack up independently, but there is other investment happening here as well," she said.

A ReachTEL poll of 1652 Queenslanders from October 24, before Ms Palaszczuk announced her veto on November 3, found 70 per cent of people were opposed the almost $1 billion NAIF loan.

Ms Palaszczuk said she understood people had diverse views on the Adani mine.

"It doesn't matter if you're in the south-east or regional Queensland, people are going to have diverse views, but as I've said, it has to stack up on its own two feet," she said.

"But we are a big economy, we're seeing strengths in agriculture, we were out there yesterday talking about the growth in the chickpea sector, the agricultural sector."

Flying into Townsville, which is Labor-held on a 5.7 per cent margin, Mr Nicholls said the LNP would not stand in the way of the NAIF loan.

"I want to tell the people of north Queensland, people here in Townsville, the people in Rockhampton, the people in Collinsville and Bowen - in all those centres that will benefit from the Carmichael mine - that a Nicholls-led LNP government will not stand in the way of NAIF funding to see that project go head," he said.

"The state’s role is simply to pass that money through and we would pass that money through.

Mr Nicholls said Ms Palaszczuk's decision to veto the loan was treating north Queenslanders as "mugs" who did not deserve jobs.