Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has joined calls urging the prime minister not to send Australian-born asylum-seeker children back to offshore detention centres.

It comes after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews wrote to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull offering to settle Australian-born asylum-seeker children and their families in the state.

"Queensland stands willing and able to help those families that are currently here," Ms Palaszczuk said on Sunday.

The premier said she had met people who had spent time in offshore detention as children who carried their experiences with them for life.

"I don't think Queenslanders want to see children in that situation," she said.

"Where is the humanity? Where is the compassion from the federal government?"

She pledged to call the prime minister to talk to him about the effects of offshore detention on children, adding: "It's about time we put politics to one side."

Mr Andrews wrote the letter to Mr Turnbull on Saturday asking him not to send children to a "life of physical and emotional trauma" in offshore detention, following Wednesday's High Court ruling that offshore detention on Nauru and Manus Island is lawful.

The ruling cleared the way for more than 250 asylum seekers to be sent to Nauru.

Mr Andrews' promise that the state would provide housing, health, education and welfare services has drawn support from advocacy groups.