{"id":821610,"date":"2026-07-24T20:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821610\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:50:14","slug":"queensland-parliament-live-updates-courts-cops-and-corrections-in-focus-at-budget-estimates-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821610\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland parliament LIVE updates: Courts, cops and corrections in focus at budget estimates hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney-General Deb Frecklington has dismissed Labor calls for the State Archivist to probe a former LNP minister\u2019s use of a private email address in a new handpicked commissioner role.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cripps\u2019 use of a private email account in the initial period of his appointment as Special Commissioner for Rural and Regional Queensland emerged under Labor questions <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/politics\/queensland\/queensland-parliament-updates-premier-treasurer-in-estimates-focus-20260721-p60h2d.html?post=p5at4h&amp;gb=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">during Tuesday\u2019s session<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Premier and Cabinet director-general Damian Walker said the issue had only come to the government\u2019s attention in recent days, and had occurred because of the contact Cripps received before getting an official account.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Labor MP Mark Ryan on Friday if she would ask the State Archivist to investigate whether all appropriate actions had been taken by Cripps around the emails to his private account, Frecklington suggested the matter had been \u201ccompletely covered\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Department director-general Sarah Cruickshank asked for a breakdown of the extended CFMEU inquiry\u2019s <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/politics\/queensland\/queensland-parliament-updates-premier-treasurer-in-estimates-focus-20260721-p60h2d.html?post=p5at20&amp;gb=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">now-quadrupled $95 million budget<\/a>, said she was unable to provide one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe budget that you\u2019ve referred to is completely in the domain of the commissioner and the commission, and I don\u2019t have visibility of any of those things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorney-General Deb Frecklington has dismissed Labor calls for the State Archivist to probe a former LNP minister\u2019s use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-821610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}