Prime Minister Scott Morrison has a message for the Queensland government on the Adani coalmine - "get on with it".
The controversial project has been up in the air for years, with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Friday setting a mid-June deadline for two approvals.
The premier stepped in earlier this week after federal Labor's bruising defeat in regional Queensland electorates that want the jobs associated with the mine.
Mr Morrison says compliance measures for the mine should be followed like any other project.
"And people should have the certainty about those processes being followed and them not being delayed," he told reporters in Cloncurry, in Queensland's north on Friday.
"And so that's what should happen. They have a decision to make. They're the authority on these questions and they should make those decisions."
Indian-owned Adani has faced environmental protest since it flagged the project, with the Stop Adani movement vowing continue its war against the mine.
But Mr Morrison says he has spoken India's newly re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi, noting that India will be an important investment partner for Australia.
"I was talking to Prime Minister Modi last night to congratulate him on his election win and he was kindly returning the favour," he said.
"India is going to be an incredibly important investment partner for Australia and it's a two-way street, and India will be an enormously big trading partner for Australia in the future."
