Qld premier's constructive Katter meeting

Relations between Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and the crossbenchers who threatened to derail her government's $35 billion infrastructure plan appear on the mend.

Ms Palaszczuk held a joint press conference with pivotal north Queensland crossbencher Rob Katter on Tuesday after the cabinet's job sub-committee met in his Mt Isa electorate.

It could have been awkward given Mr Katter, along with fellow KAP member Shane Knuth and Labor defector Rob Pyne, last week threatened to block her government's infrastructure spending plans unless more money was directed to the north.

The trio has also threatened to hand power over to the Liberal National Party opposition if Ms Palaszczuk carries out her threat to call an early election.

But the relationship appeared much more amicable when the premier and Mr Katter fronted the media.

Ms Palaszczuk said she had listened to Mr Katter's concerns.

"We have listened to Robbie's issues, I've listened to the community's issues and ... elements of that will feed into our state budget," she said.

Mr Katter described the sub-committee meeting as "constructive" and said there had been progress made on roads funding and rural debt issues.

"We've ticked off some boxes with things like the western roads package," Mr Katter said.

"With the rural debt task force we've had a lot of constructive dialogue."

But he described the economic situation in the outback as "dire" following enormous blows to the cattle industry and trouble in the mining sector.

"There are very big problems and they've been brewing for a long time ... we're working hard to try and address those with the government now," he said.

While she acknowledged Mr Katter's concerns, Ms Palaszczuk said federal funding was critical and there was a huge amount required to create jobs and infrastructure across the state's north.

"My message to Malcolm Turnbull is very clear, I'm putting Queensland first and I want you to put Queensland first," she said.

Meanwhile, independent MP Billy Gordon has said he wouldn't support the crossbench strategy to hand over power to the opposition if Ms Palaszczuk called an early election.

Mr Gordon said while he sympathised with his fellow northern crossbenchers wanting more money for infrastructure, he had urged them to have a "better plan" and "stay calm".