Premier David Crisafulli and under-fire ministerial lovers Amanda Camm and Tim Mander have been referred to Queensland’s corruption watchdog by the state opposition.
The call for a Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) investigation follows a week of scrutiny on the ministers over whether they made appropriate conflict of interest declarations relating to their relationship.
Mr Mander was in an extramarital affair with Ms Camm while in opposition, which ended in May 2024.
The LNP went on to win the October state election, and the pair reconnected eight months into the new administration, declaring the relationship as required of ministers.
However, each has refused to reveal whether they sought integrity commissioner advice on whether they needed to declare their prior relationship upon coming to government.
Mr Crisafulli has also declined to reveal whether he encouraged his ministers to seek integrity advice about the prior relationship.
Steven Miles said the government had left him with no choice. (ABC News: Lucas Hill)
Opposition leader Steven Miles said the government had left Labor with little choice.
“The LNP Crisafulli government is in the midst of a very serious integrity crisis, and you saw yesterday in the parliament that the premier and those ministers are unwilling to answer simple questions about what happened,” he said.
“For that reason, we’ve written today to the Crime and Corruption Commission to investigate every element of this integrity crisis.”
In response to questions on the referrals, the government pointed to a section of the Crime and Corruption Act, where a person commits an offence if a complaint is made vexatiously, or not in good faith, or recklessly or mischievously.
‘Serious questions’
Ms Camm, Mr Mander, and Mr Crisafulli have consistently assured that all appropriation declarations had been made.
Each has been contacted for comment.
Olympics Minister Tim Mander on Tuesday denied any advocacy by Ms Camm for the sailing in the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games be moved to her Whitsundays electorate.
In the letter to the CCC, Mr Miles and deputy opposition leader Cameron Dick wrote there were “serious questions” over conflict of interest management, which may have “compromised” government decision-making.
“Queenslanders deserve to have confidence that decisions made with taxpayer funds are not done so for personal gain,” the letter reads.
The ministerial code of conduct requires all personal interests, including relationships, to be declared.
The opposition’s letter requested that any investigation report be made public to “ensure public confidence” in government processes.