Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will not ask one of her ministers about a CV sent to his private email account by a union boss.
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A Right to Information request by The Australian revealed Electrical Trade Union boss Peter Simpson forwarded a resume to former energy minister Mark Bailey, who sent it to his chief of staff.
"Mate, as discussed", the email from Mr Simpson reads, with the name on the CV redacted.
On Wednesday, Ms Palaszczuk said she did not know whether the person landed a government job but said she would look into it.
"I don't know, I know that all of those issues about the emails were canvassed at length by the CCC. If there is any particular details that you want investigated further, we can have a look at those," Ms Palaszczuk said.
Reporter: "So you’ll commit to finding out whether that person did receive a government job?"
Ms Palaszczuk: "Sure, happy to have a look at it."
Later during the same press conference, Ms Palaszczuk said the document was tabled in Parliament but she had not had a chance to look at it.
On Thursday, Ms Palaszczuk said she had looked at the tabled email and the name was redacted.
"I did look into it, I looked into the tabled document and the tabled document had been redacted through Right to Information laws, and I'm going to abide by those Right to Information laws," she said.
"I investigated the tabled document, the tabled document did not contain a name, right, and the CCC had investigated all of the emails at length, and found no allegations of corruption or criminality."
Ms Palaszczuk still did not know if the person received a job in the government.
"I don't know the name," she said.
She would not commit to asking Mr Bailey for the name of the person on the CV.
"All of these matters have been investigated by the CCC," she said.
"If anyone has any concerns, please raise it with the CCC."
LNP leader Deb Frecklington said Mr Bailey should be sacked.
"Why doesn't the Premier just knock on the door of Mark Bailey, and say 'hey mate, did this guy get given a job from the back channelling?" Ms Frecklington said.
"If there's nothing to see here, what are we covering up?"
Last year, Mr Bailey was under fire for his use of a private email account mangocube6@yahoo.co.uk, which he deleted.
However, the Crime and Corruption Commission confirmed it would not prosecute Mr Bailey for his use of the email account and deletion of public records because they were able to be recovered.
