POLITICAL groups and anti-development protesters have been denied entry to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's afternoon tea with community groups in Mackay on Monday.

Dawson MP George Christensen said the event was for community groups and not an opportunity for political lobby groups such as the Mackay Conservation Group, Australian Marine Conservation Group, and Whitsunday Residents Against Dumping, to push their political message and anti-jobs agenda.

"I am bewildered how these groups thought they would get an invite when all they have done is mercilessly attack everything I have pushed for the benefit of the community and everything the government has done for the community," he said.

"They have done everything they possibly can to prevent jobs being created in the Carmichael mine, with the expansion of the port at Abbot Point, and the proposed Urannah Dam."

Mackay Conservation Group's Peter McCallum said he was not surprised that his organisation was excluded from the meeting.

"I think if he wants to reach a diverse group of organisation in the community then we would have been invited," Mr McCallum said.

"If he want to meet the voice of the environment in Mackay then he would meet with us."

Mr Christensen said they were not community groups, they are fronts for the Australian Greens.

He said groups that were so blatantly political and anti-Liberal National Party was not going to be invited to the event.

"There will no doubt be many people in the room who do not vote for the Liberal National Party but they are members of groups that are not politically motivated and actually make our community a better place to live," he said.

"The Mackay Conservation Group and fellow travellers are enemies of jobs and progress and avowed enemies of myself and the government as a result.

"It is just staggering that they would have the hide to ask for an invitation to event when they spend all their efforts viciously attacking the hosts and the work they are doing for the benefit of the community."