PREMIER Campbell Newman has asked for a "fair go" for controversial Redcliffe MP Scott Driscoll.

"I have not seen anything yet that would disqualify him from being a member of parliament," he said.

"I can assure people though that I've always been taking it very seriously and it is being looked at and has been looked at for some time."

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Mr Driscoll has now referred himself to the Integrity Commission.

"I think that's appropriate," Premier Newman said.

"Let's not have trial by media, let's give him a fair go.

"It's about him and his community. The next time he goes to the ballot box they'll be making a call on these matters.

media_camera Scott Driscoll's business world.

"I just want people to know I haven't seen anything new in today's paper to what he's supposedly done and not done."

Mr Newman said his government had been looking at how public money was spent "at all times".

Mr Driscoll today released a statement saying he had sought a meeting with Queensland Integrity Commissioner Dr David Solomon to make "an independent assessment of allegations made via certain media outlets."

But the Integrity Commissioner has no investigative powers and can only offer advice.

State Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk called on Mr Driscoll to provide a detailed explanation responding to all allegations in State Parliament tomorrow.

"The allegations today are scandalous," Ms Palaszczuk said.

"They are murky, they are messy, they are muddy and a full explanation is needed," she said.

"Just under two weeks ago the Premier stood up in the Queensland Parliament and said very clearly he had full confidence in the MP for Redcliffe.

"Does the Premier still have full confidence in him today?"

Labor MP Jackie Trad has referred complaints about Mr Driscoll to Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart and Queensland Auditor-General Andrew Greaves.

She wrote to both Mr Stewart and Mr Greaves on February 26 after receiving information about Mr Driscoll involving the relationship between his wife's company Norsefire and the Regional Community Association Moreton Bay.

Mr Driscoll joined his colleagues in the LNP's party room meeting at Parliament House just before 3pm.

He waited until media had been shut off from a corridor leading in to the meeting room before entering the gathering on his own.

On his way out of the still-sitting meeting, LNP President Bruce McIver said "I don't know of anything illegal Mr Driscoll has done and look forward to seek what the integrity commissioner has to say."

Mr McIver said Mr Driscoll's future was not being discussed a the meeting.

Mr Newman's call for a 'fair go' came at the same time that senior federal minister Anthony Albanese has accused him of trying to shut up its critics to protect the embattled Mr Driscoll.

In a fiery debate in federal parliament about the Gillard government's planned media laws, Mr Albanese said the Newman government had followed a tradition of conservative governments to try to silence critics.

"That tradition has been brought back by Premier Campbell Newman. Premier Newman, who has placed a gag order on community organisations once again in order to stop them speaking out [about] government policies," Mr Albanese

"It's little wonder, given what his member Mr Driscoll is going through, that he doesn't want community organisations talking about the performance of government."

Earlier, in a statement released on behalf of Regional Community Association of Moreton Bay, Ferguson Cannon lawyer Sam Barber states the RCAMB board "emphatically rejects any suggestion that it in any way has not always operated as an entirely independent board and made any and all decisions entirely of its own volition."

The RCAMB board was investigating what "it suspects is a serious breach of security in its email and internet systems over recent weeks," the statement continues.

A written statement from this MP this morning said: "Mr Scott Driscoll MP, Member for Redcliffe, has today sought a meeting with the Queensland Integrity Commissioner to allow the Commissioner to make an independent assessment of allegations made via certain media outlets within a co-ordinated campaign against the MP and his family."

"Mr Driscoll said he looks forward to letting the independent Integrity Commissioner make an unbiased assessment of all associated matters and has expressed his complete faith that absolutely no wrongdoing whatsoever will be found to have occurred. "

Earlier,LNP minister Mark McArdle called on Mr Driscoll to "answer to the people of Queensland" as allegations of misconduct dog the first-time MP.

"I think Mr Driscoll has to clear the air very quickly and if there's evidence of misconduct, put it to the CMC and have it investigated properly," Mr McArdle said.

"We are now in a position where to let it go on is not in the interests of anybody.

"If there is evidence existing, put it to the CMC.

"This can't go on. It must be clarified. It must be cleared up one way or the other."

Several Cabinet Ministers, however, refused to say if Mr Driscoll had their support this morning, saying it was a matter for the Redcliffe MP.

Housing Minister Tim Mander said he was sure the claims would be investigated.

"If they are substantiated, the party will look into it," he said.

Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said he also believed Mr Driscoll should clear the air.

"The most important thing is that he answer to the people of Redcliffe and the people of Queensland.

"Mr Driscoll needs to answer these (allegations) and I'm sure he will."

Natural Resources and Mines Minister Andrew Cripps also called on anyone who believed they had evidence of misconduct on the part of Mr Driscoll to report it to authorities.

"If the Labor Party or anyone else have got anything that they want to put to the CMC, or anyone else who wants to investigate it, I think its important they do so," he said.

Earlier, Opposition leader Annastacia Palaszczuk called for an investigation to be launched, further encouraging Premier Campbell Newman to refer the allegations to the Crime and Misconduct Commission.

“I am very disturbed by the allegations that have been raised today in The Courier-Mail. This is now a scandal engulfing the Premier,” Ms Palaszczuk said.

“There have been countless allegations about this member. At first there was just one or two but they are just compounding.”

Ms Palaszczuk called for Premier Campbell Newman to state whether or not he fully supported Mr Driscoll following the allegations.

Mr Newman has repeatedly said he supported Mr Driscoll despite allegations of misconduct and impropriety.

But Ms Palaszczuk said it was important for the Redcliffe state member to openly speak in parliament and answer questions.

“He has not made a matter of privilege, he has not explained himself,” she said.

“This member for parliament, Mr Driscoll, needs a full explanation about mates being appointed to the board, about public money going to his wife, how his wife came to be employed in the organisation when apparently she had, and I quote, nil qualifications. There are so many questions here that need to be answered.”

Mr Driscoll has not responded to the media’s attempts to contact him.

Earlier, The Courier-Mail established that Redcliffe MP Scott Driscoll has been directing the operations of the Regional Community Association of Moreton Bay, a provider of frontline social services to his electorate, from behind the scenes since becoming an MP.

Mr Driscoll cemented control - with the help of friendly RCAMB members - installing political mates on the board in 2012, getting his wife a job on the payroll and having dissenting staff removed and forcing a troublesome board member to resign.

Former RCAMB staffers have told The Courier-Mail that money was so tight last year they could not access funds to buy food for homeless clients of the RCAMB, which received about $1.6 million in public funding and donations in 2012.

It has been established that Mr Driscoll has had secret day-to-day control of the management of the RCAMB for at least the past 12 months, while Norsefire, a company owned by his wife Emma and where he was sole director until she took over on February 25, received almost $120,000 for consultancy work, only some of which was actually performed.

Emails, invoices and other documents show Norsefire charged $1000 a week until the middle of last year for "media communications strategy and management" and subsequently $2600 a week for "secretariat management fees".

From August 2012 there is no evidence of Norsefire having any employees to conduct any work on behalf of RCAMB.

Even prior to this, RCAMB staff say there was little evidence of any benefit from the "press liaison" work they understood Norsefire had been contracted to do.

Mrs Driscoll, a florist, was from late last year on the payroll as "HR admin officer".

Mr Driscoll wrote her job description, which includes "formal qualification requirement: nil".

On February 28, a day after the Department of Communities asked RCAMB, formerly known as the RCA, for information about payments to consulting companies, Emma Driscoll sent an email to a colleague at the association asking for help to "delete what is in the drop box that was on my laptop which I have of course left at RCA".

"Is there a way we/you can do a complete sweep of that computer both files/trash/word docs etc ... so there is nothing left on there?" she asks.

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All the members of the RCAMB board during 2012 except one worked on Mr Driscoll's election campaign, including his campaign director Ben Scott, his campaign treasurer Geoff Jamieson and former local Federal LNP chairman Brian Roselt. Its president until last month was Bruce Mills, another supporter.

The Courier-Mail understands Mr Mills held about half of the votes of the RCAMB's 20 members as proxies, which with the votes of Mr Jamieson, Mr Scott and Mr Roselt gave Mr Driscoll's political mates control of the board.

The other member of the board is understood to be a "client" of the RCAMB's mental health program.

When former RCAMB Treasurer Terry Rogers, himself a former state MP, questioned Norsefire's involvement in the association in March 2012, Mr Driscoll wrote to Mr Mills and Mr Scott saying: "The buck stops with an elected MP or Minister to make any required disclosures not Terry Rogers ...

"I personally suggest it's time his position on this board was considered for him and action taken pretty quickly right now".

Mr Rogers was forced to resign from the board shortly afterwards.

Mr Driscoll has disclosed his directorship of Norsefire but has publicly distanced himself, saying it is "100 per cent owned by my wife".

He has only ever described himself as "patron" of the RCAMB.

But emails show he micromanaged the body, giving instructions on everything from financial audits and how to respond to demands for information from bureaucrats to which airconditioning company should be used.

In January he even banned staff from participating in free health checks provided by Medicare Local.

"The fact paid RCA staff at large are being encouraged or allowed to avail themselves of funded services while the staff are meant to be working in essentially a government funded role could understandably create a catastrophic PR disaster," Mr Driscoll wrote to services manager Tracey Slater on January 17.

Emails also show Mr Driscoll presented Norsefire invoices to RCAMB and chased up payments.

Federal and State Governments are investigating the RCAMB over allegations of mismanagement and financial irregularities following complaints by staff.

Mr Driscoll did not respond to a request for comment. Mr Mills did not respond to questions. Mrs Driscoll could not be reached.

Mr Driscoll won the seat of Redcliffe at the LNP's landslide election victory last year.

Redcliffe had long been considered a Labor stronghold but the force of the LNP victory meant such seats were swept to the conservatives. Mr Driscoll has received strong support from Premier Campbell Newman in Parliament in recent weeks under scrutiny from the Labor Opposition.

- additional reporting by Sarah Vogler & Brittany Vonow