AFTER an emergency meeting was called this evening, the LNP party room has voted to ask State President Bruce McIver to consider Yeerongpilly MP Carl Judge's disendorsement.

8.17pm: "I was hopeful a resolution would be achieved," Mr Judge said.

"Clearly they are seeking to have me expelled.

"I would have liked to have had the opportunity to address the party room."

8.10pm: Mr Judge said he was committed to the LNP despite the decision and would await the party's final call.

"Campbell Newman and Jeff Seeney run the parliamentary wing... They certainly don't run the party," he said.

Mr Judge said he had sought a meeting with the Premier before the party room meeting but was denied one.

He called on Mr Seeney to substantiate the allegations against him and afford him natural justice.

8.05pm: Yeerongpilly MP Carl Judge is expected to call a press conference soon after the LNP party room voted to recommend his disendorsement during an emergency meeting earlier this evening.

7.30pm: "There was a whole range of behavior we found unacceptable," Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney said.

"The team has decided to take action."

He said the party would ask State President Bruce McIver to consider Mr Judge's disendorsement.

Mr Seeney said the party room had voted "without dissent" on a motion asking Mr McIver to take action against the Yeerongpilly MP.

"We don't believe the member for Yeerongpilly... any longer deserves the endorsement of the LNP in that position."

Mr Seeney said the party room did not have the power to expel him.

"All the party room can do is exclude him from our ranks," he said.

As for Gaven MP Alex Douglas' fate, Mr Seeney said he was confident he and Premier Campbell Newman would come to a resolution.

"They are both experienced politicians and I think they will settle their differences tonight," Mr Seeney said.

Mr Newman, Mr Douglas and several other MPs remain locked in a meeting tonight, attempting to resolve those issues.

Mr Douglas said he was still a member of the LNP and would "probably die one".

6.40pm: LNP MPs had called an emergency party room meeting this evening amid speculation rogue backbenchers Carl Judge and Alex Douglas could be punted from the party.

Water Minister Mark McArdle, asked as he entered the meeting if the two should go, answered only "Yes" before closing the door.

Dr Douglas also entered the meeting, saying only: "I'll always be an LNP MP."

Mr Newman said their membership was: "A matter for the party room".

But Howard Hobbs, who some had speculated could follow former colleague Ray Hopper and defect to Katter's Australian Party, said: "The LNP's a great party to be with", adding "My word" when asked if he wanted to stick with the Newman team.

- additional reporting by Steven Scott, Robyn Ironside, Koren Helbig

EARLIER, sidelined Gold Coast MP Alex Douglas planned to stay put in the LNP if he is allowed to, despite being kicked off another committee for speaking out against the government.

The Member for Gaven today demanded to be reinstated to the Ethics Committee and sought a retraction of comments made by Manager of Government Business Ray Stevens, regarding his honesty and integrity.

The pair attacked each other on radio this morning, over events leading up to his removal from the Ethics Committee.

In parliament, Premier Campbell Newman said he was disappointed to hear two members of his government at loggerheads on radio, but he believed Mr Stevens over Dr Douglas, who was also discharged from the Legal Affairs Committee.

Mr Newman told parliament Dr Douglas had assured him - in a meeting with witnesses on Tuesday - that he was happy with the move.

Mr Newman attacked the integrity of his MP and said it was right that he be stripped of his new committee role.

"Perhaps that speaks volumes about why there does need to be a change, because if you don't have the integrity to tell the truth about a meeting with the leader of your party ... then perhaps you shouldn't be doing that job," the premier said.

He said that during Tuesday's meeting, he told Dr Douglas: "Alex, there will be no move if you are unhappy."

The premier said the MP replied: "I'm perfectly happy to do this and move."

After Question Time, Dr Douglas said he planned to remain in the LNP but conceded he could face similar treatment to Carl Judge who has been banned from the LNP party room, for disloyalty.

"The normal sorts of procedures to be banned, would require a vote of the party room and it would have to be very strongly supported," he said.

Manager of Government Business Ray Stevens told Parliament moments after today's sitting started, that Dr Douglas would be discharged as chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee, and Ian Berry appointed in his place.

Independent Peter Wellington spoke against the motion, saying it was a "get square" by the government because it had the numbers to do so.

A division was called and the motion was passed with all LNP MPs voting in favour, and the Opposition, Katter Australian Party and Mr Wellington voting against.

Wavering MP Carl Judge was not in the chamber.

The move is a significant blow to Dr Douglas who also lost his place on the Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee yesterday.

It effectively means a $21,000 pay cut.

Mr Berry is the Member for Ipswich, a seat he holds with a four per cent margin.

Earlier, Mr Judge criticised the removal of Ethics Committee chairman Alex Douglas, comparing the treatment to that of his own at the hands of the LNP.

Three days after Mr Judge was locked out of the LNP party room for not publicly declaring his allegiance to the Premier, he is still to make up his mind whether to remain with the party, or leave.

He said he expected to announce a decision tomorrow, but it was proving very difficult.

"If I need a bit longer, I'll take a bit more time. It's a difficult decision to make," said Mr Judge.

"There's no reverse gear on this."

In relation to the removal of Dr Douglas from the Ethics and Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committees, Mr Judge said it was "not the approach he would've taken to deal with somebody".

"We all operate differently. That's the course of action they've taken, so be it," he said.

"I'm sure it's been upsetting for Dr Douglas, likewise when I was approached by the Deputy Premier and (Manager of Government Business) Ray Stevens, I wasn't impressed with their manner.

"We didn't have a cup of tea, put it that way. There could've been another approach taken."

Responding to the events of the last few days, Opposition leader Annastacia Palaszczuk said there was "something rotten" in the State of Queensland.

"I believe Alex Douglas to be a very ethical man, a man of integrity, a man who understands the nature of handling an Ethics and PCMC committee," she said.

"There's a lot of explaining at needs to happen today not only by the Premier but also by the Leader of the House.

"I am very concerned that we have very serious matters before the Ethics Committee and why now has Alex Douglas been pushed aside."

This morning, it was reported that axed Ethics Committee chairman Alex Douglas would demand to be immediately reinstated to his post in a personal statement to the parliament.

Dr Douglas said he had received new information about the reasons for his removal - which he did not request, despite Premier Campbell Newman telling the Parliament he had.

“I’m very very uncomfortable with what the Premier said in parliament yesterday,” said Dr Douglas.

Asked if he believed the Premier had misled the house, he said “people will make up their own minds about that”.

Campbell Newman told Parliament, he understood Dr Douglas had indicated he wanted a change from the Ethics Committee and the Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee.

Mr Newman said if he had not wanted to change, he did not have to.

Dr Douglas said he was only told shortly before parliament sat of the decision, and he had not got the full details of why he was moved at that time.

“I am now aware of other things that have transpired and these things give me great concern as the exiting chairman of the Ethics Committee,” he said.

“You don’t go and change the chairman. You only change the chairman if you’re trying to set a different type of agenda, and if you haven’t told the chairman it beholds the chairman to take action.

“I’m not trying to build myself up. There’s something very, very odd about what has occurred.”

But Manager of Government Business Ray Stevens described the ongoing dramatics in Parliament as "cheap show business".

Mr Stevens claimed Dr Douglas was being "loose with the truth" and insisted he was happy with the changes.

He told ABC Radio, he reported his conversation to the Premier which led to his statement to parliament that Dr Douglas had asked for the change.

"Alex likes to talk on the media regularly and we found out later he was unhappy, he has been very unhappy about not being on Cabinet," Mr Stevens said.

He went on to say if he was disgruntled, he should resign from his new post as chairman of the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee.

Mr Stevens insisted the appointment only came about because of the defection of Ray Hopper from the LNP to the Katter Australian Party.

Dr Douglas has suggested other motivations were in play to move him out of the powerful Ethics Committee which was in the process of investigating accusations Transport and Main Roads' Director-General Michael Caltabiano misinformed an Estimates hearing about his work history. '

The Ethics Committee had just suspended a number of inquiries into matters relating to Mr Caltabiano.

Yesterday the government claimed the reasons for the change was because of the defection of Ray Hopper to the Katter Australian Party.

Mining magnate Clive Palmer, who threw in his Liberal National Party life membership last week after a long-running war of words with government, says the premier should resign for misleading parliament.

"The premier has no alternative but to resign for misleading parliament and the good people of Queensland over this grubby affair," he said in a statement on Wednesday.

Mr Palmer has also called for Katter's Australian Party's Queensland leader Rob Katter and Labor leader Annastacia Palaszczuk to refer Mr Newman to the ethics committee.

Meanwhile, the divisions within Campbell Newman's Government have sparked concerns in the Coalition ranks in Canberra.

One senior figure has told the Premier he needs to better manage the renegades in his parliamentary team.

Despite public assurances from Tony Abbott that he was not worried about the threats of more defections, one of Mr Abbott's closest allies said Mr Newman needed to learn from the way Mr Abbott managed outspoken federal MPs and Senators such as Alby Schultz, Bill Heffernan and Barnaby Joyce.

"You've got to manage people, keep them on side," the senior source said. "If you can't manage them, all people see is bits and pieces falling off the machine."

Senior federal members of the Liberal National Party said they feared the fallout damaging their merged party's brand and one warned that "they could blow it apart".

"They have got to get their sh*t together. This is amateur hour stuff," the source said.

"It's not just Campbell, it's the whole leadership team."

The anonymous attack from very senior levels reflects a growing anxiety in the federal party about being tarnished by the infighting within the state LNP.

It is designed to send a message to the State Government of anger from within the federal Coalition, the source said.

But another senior federal Coalition figure defended Mr Newman, saying "only one defection" was insignificant given the size of his back bench.

The same person said Clive Palmer should wear the blame for the turmoil.

Some in the Coalition are warning they need to view Bob Katter as more of a threat than Labor and have predicted his party could win a Senate seat from either one of the main parties at next year's election.

Mr Abbott has avoided commenting on the fallout in the LNP, saying it is "a matter for the party in Queensland".

He has publicly denied suggestions the LNP is "falling apart" and laughed off suggestions the threatened defections were hurting the party.

"If we get the kind of election result that Campbell Newman got in Queensland, I'd be a very happy man," Mr Abbott said on Monday.

- additional reporting by Steven Scott, Robyn Ironside, Koren Helbig



Originally published as LNP asks party to disendorse 'rogue' MP