The Queensland premier Campbell Newman has been accused of contempt of parliament. Source: AAP
THE opposition will push for Queensland Premier Campbell Newman to be held in contempt of parliament for attacking the parliamentary body that oversees the embattled crime and corruption watchdog.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says she'll write to Speaker Fiona Simpson on Tuesday asking for action.
Mr Newman last week accused the bipartisan Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee (PCMC) of failing to supervise properly the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC).
He said the committee had become a "lapdog" of the very organisation it was meant to scrutinise.
He accused the committee of allowing the CMC inadvertently to release and shred secret documents from the Fitzgerald inquiry into police corruption.
Ms Palaszczuk said he even went as far as accusing the PCMC itself of shredding documents.
"The premier has repeatedly made comments about the PCMC and it is not appropriate and it has to end," she said.
The opposition leader told the premier, the attorney general, and the treasurer to butt out.
"The PCMC and the CMC need to have their integrity kept at all costs, and what we are seeing very clearly is an attack by the executive government on the PCMC and the CMC.
"This matter of contempt is serious."
A public hearing into the release of the confidential documents will begin in parliament on Wednesday.
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