The Mackay-based politician came under fire during the state election campaign after posting a satirical cartoon that unflatteringly cast Labor Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk as the Miley Cyrus of the popstar’s infamous Wrecking Ball music video – a move that even Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, at the time, said was disappointing.

Yet Christensen, who has removed the cartoon from his Facebook page, told the ABC he would take a delegation of business and community leaders to discuss the Abbot Point project with Palaszczuk.

The Labor party already plans to reverse the Newman government’s decision to invest in Adani Mining’s proposed railway line to link its Galilee Basin project to the terminal.

Christensen said he wants assurances the coal terminal expansion project will not be held up.

"In my mind, the only way it's going to happen as quickly as possible is if the current application for the Abbot Point coal terminal expansion that's before the federal government is allowed to continue and is allowed to be approved," he reportedly said.

"Hopefully they will listen to these members of the community and what they're saying.

"Really just let this continue to happen and the current application before the federal government to continue to be assessed, get it approved and just get on with creating the jobs."

Christensen’s controversial cartoon depicted a naked Palaszczuk riding a wrecking ball that was going to smash into a wall that said “Abbot Point Coal Terminal jobs”