For all but one of the 26 days of last month's Queensland election campaign, Prime Minister Tony Abbott was conspicuously absent from the state.

Now, it has taken just days since the swearing in of the state's new Labor-led minority government for him to visit – and it's with a message for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has visited Queensland for the first time since before the state election. Credit:Christopher Pearce

"I'll be letting her know this is a Commonwealth government that has done the right thing by Queensland, we have scrapped the carbon tax, we have scrapped the mining tax and they were anti-Queensland taxes," he told reporters in Brisbane on Wednesday.

Though ostensibly in Brisbane's north for the sod-turning of the state's first children's palliative care facility, Hummingbird House, a meeting with Queensland's newly-installed leader was on his immediate radar.