An independent Queensland senator has threatened to grab the Prime Minister's genitals — and possibly stick a finger up his backside — if he does not limit coal seam gas (CSG) exploration.

Former Palmer United Party senator Glenn Lazarus has presented Prime Minister Tony Abbott's office with a petition to allow greater community consultation, health impact assessments, as well as exclusion zones around CSG.

The former rugby league great, renowned for a crushing style on the field, jokingly told an anti-CSG rally in Sydney he was willing to apply some of the game's rougher tactics to politics.

"I'm prepared to go and squirrel grip, squirrel grip, the Prime Minister," Senator Lazarus said.

"If that doesn't work, I've got other things up my sleeve, like the grapple tackle, the chicken wing and even the crusher tackle."

The Senator then went further, referring to a 2001 incident in which Wests Tigers player John Hopoate inserted his finger into opponents' anuses.

"If that (the squirrel grip) doesn't work, I'm prepared to use the Hopoate tactics," Senator Lazarus said.

Senator Lazarus has been raising the issue of CSG in Parliament, asking why the Government has appeared to be more concerned about wind farms than the impacts of gas exploration.

"I have threatened Tony Abbott to shirtfront him about this issue," he said.

"To stand up and take notice, and go and see for yourself.

"Tony Abbott in 2013 said that no-one should live anywhere near, or in amongst coal seam gas wells, and I think he should remind himself of that."

Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said the comments were Senator Lazarus' "colourful turn of phrase".

"I don't think the Prime Minister is going to take it seriously," he said.

The Prime Minister's office has been contacted for comment.