Protesters had gathered to hear the Queensland Government's plans to address their concerns over mining expansion at the Roma community cabinet meeting on Sunday.

But State Treasurer Andrew Fraser was more than a kilometre away holding a quiet press conference.

Away from the ears of frustrated landholders, Mr Fraser announced government plans to hold a series of community forums throughout the South East corner next month.

He said the forums would provide an appropriate forum for the public to voice its concerns over coal seam gas (CSG) mining ventures.

The government was prepared for a fight from landholders when they arrived in Roma.

And it was quickly taking action to avoid having to make any serious commitments to the gathering protesters.

Such was the fear among government ministers of protesters at the weekend that political advisers were reluctant to provide ministerial itineraries even to the media in the days leading up to the community cabinet meeting.

Mr Fraser was challenged by a journalist as to whether the Bligh Government would listen to the growing concerns of the rural protesters and take action.

He said the mere fact the government was in Roma in the first place was proof it was listening.

However, at the public forum an hour later, it was the politicians who were doing most of the talking. Well, most of the politicians.

Natural Resources Minister Stephen Robertson who, despite all but one question from the public gallery about mining, sat motionless during the meeting, leaving Premier Anna Bligh to address the crowd.

The announcement that Mr Robertson was at the forum resulted in the loudest jeering of the afternoon.

Ms Bligh had arrived in Western Queensland with a swag of locally based public funding announcements to distract from the overwhelming feeling among bush voters that the government was not hearing their concerns over the expansion of mining ventures onto agricultural land.