The Queensland Government has announced it will essentially overhaul the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) after accepting many recommendations from inquires into the independent body.

The changes are aimed at reducing the number of complaints to the corruption watchdog.

Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie says the CMC has been used and abused by people publicising their complaints to score political points.

He says legislation implementing the accepted recommendations will be introduced this year.

Under the changes whistleblowers could be prosecuted for making malicious, vexatious or complaints deemed baseless, and ordered to pay compensation and costs.

The publication of complaints will be outlawed except in limited circumstances or when it leads to criminal or disciplinary proceedings.

The threshold of what constitutes official misconduct will be raised.

It is unclear whether the media will still be able to report on investigations by the CMC, but Mr Bleijie says freedom of the press will be taken into consideration.

"What we're actually trying to do is stop the politicians using this as their sort of 'get someone' before an investigation," he said.

"However we've got to get the balance [right] because we don't want to tie journalists in that regard."