“It’s bad shit. I’m never going to jail, eh.” Mr Muller: “You figured it out?” Mr Dickson: “I walked the knife.” Mr Dickson was a member of the committee between April 2009 and June 2011. It was later renamed the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee. Alex Douglas, the former independent state member for Gaven who chaired the PCMC from June 2011 to May 2012, said committee members were under a lifelong obligation of utmost secrecy over what they heard during their work.

He called for an official investigation into the context of Mr Dickson's remarks, including whether any other information may have been disclosed. Loading “They’re told when they join that everything that’s discussed, other than information that’s deemed to be public, is confidential, forever,” Mr Douglas said. “A lot of the information [discussed by the committee] would be highly compromising. It would be highly advantageous to some people and highly disadvantageous to others. “Not only can [Mr Dickson] not discuss it, he can never, ever use it his whole life. He can never ever share it.

“Dickson needs to make a statement as to what his intention was … and the PCCC needs to be informed.” Loading It is not suggested that Mr Dickson has breached any of his obligations under the Act but he has been contacted to explain the context of the recorded discussion. He is yet to respond. The PCCC's current chair, Tim Nicholls, confirmed its members were bound by strict and indefinite confidentiality and faced up to a year's imprisonment for breaches. But Mr Nicholls did not see grounds for Mr Dickson to be investigated based on what was broadcast.

"It didn't make much sense to me to be frank. It just looked like the boast of someone who's pretty bloody dim,'' Mr Nicholls said. "I saw it as some boastfulness about 'look I've been on a committee, I know the stuff that gets you into trouble, and I'm not going to go down a path that gets me into trouble'. "'If it goes wrong, I know what the CCC can do and I'm not going to do anything that will get me caught up or get me in trouble. "At worst I saw it saying 'I know how they operate and therefore I'm not going to get caught'. "It's the ongoing wackiness of One Nation. It is revealing I guess of the thought processes of the people who make up One Nation. And his comments all the way through strike me as a mixture of boastfulness, ignorance and a denial of reality.

"For a bloke who reckons he knows how the CCC operates, he's just been caught out horrendously." The bipartisan committee is arguably the most powerful body in the Queensland Parliament. As well as overseeing the Crime and Corruption Commission, which itself has responsibility for investigating corruption allegations against politicians, it can call witnesses and evidence for its own inquiries. During the period Mr Dickson was a member of the committee, controversial matters it dealt with included allegations of the improper release of information relating to the CMC’s investigation of a death in custody that had prompted riots on Palm Island in 2004 and whistleblower testimony regarding alleged Queensland Health medical malpractice. Mr Dickson was the Liberal member for Kawana from 2006 to 2009 and then represented Buderim for the merged LNP until January 2017, when he resigned the LNP to join One Nation.

He was minister for National Parks, Sport, Recreation and Racing in the 2012-2015 Newman LNP government. He lost his seat in the 2017 state election to the LNP candidate, Brent Mickelberg, but remained state leader of One Nation.