But shadow police minister and former attorney-general Jarrod Bleijie, who himself came under fire during the Newman government for politicising the CCC, said Labor was putting the watchdog's independence at risk. "I think there has been relative stability in the CCC over the last few years without getting involved in politics and we are now seeing the new Labor Government, the first thing they want to do is involve the CCC in politics," he said. "I think the CCC won't do that, because they know the risks associated with that. We'll see. The CCC is able to do whatever inquiry they want." But Ms Palaszczuk has already had to fend off claims that the inquiry, which was floated during the election and included in the commitments Labor made to independent MP Peter Wellington to gain his support to govern earlier this year, is a political get-square, despite originally saying the she wanted to "find out, under the former government", whether there were any connections between donations and projects. "People throughout Queensland have been stopping me for the last three years, concerned about allegations of whether or not decisions were made due to political donations," she said.

"We don't know because some of those donations have been hidden, because the LNP changed the goal post. The LNP, the former government changed those political donation thresholds from $1000 to $12,500. Now we have reverted back to the norm and now we will see whether or not there has been any conflict, or perceived conflict of interest between the awarding of tenders and contracts and political donations." Ms Palaszczuk said "you only have to listen to radio stations" to hear people's concerns. "So let's get to the bottom of it." But she said it was different to the Abbott Government ordered Royal Commission into union corruption, which has been much maligned by Labor, because hers was "an election commitment". "Governments, if there is an inquiry, governments, whether you are on one side or the other, you should, abide by that inquiry," she said.

"Now, that has happened in the past, if the federal government has an inquiry into trade unions, so be it, now if there is going to be a political donations, so be it." The terms of reference are yet to be set, but Ms Palaszczuk said she would speak to Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath about what they should contain in the near future. She later conceded the inquiry could go further back than the previous government, to when Labor was in power. "The Labor Party has nothing to hide and I hope the LNP has nothing to hide," she said. An LNP spokesperson said the party had nothing to fear from an inquiry in to political donations. "Any such inquiry would not be credible without also investigating the funding of political campaigns conducted by third parties, in particular those by unions," the spokesperson said.