Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk has slammed a government "cover up" over the Ken Levy affair. Credit:Glenn Hunt All opposition and independent MPs voted against it, but all government MPs voted in favour. The motion followed the PCMC questioning the fulsomeness of Dr Levy's statement about his discussions with government media advisers before the publication of his October 31 opinion piece supporting the government's anti-gang legislation. The PCMC released transcripts of private hearings with the Premier's chief media adviser Lee Anderson and Dr Levy, which appeared to contradict each other, in the early hours of Thursday morning. Opposition leader Annastacia Palaszczuk spoke against Thursdsay night's motion, calling it a "cover up".

"You can spin this as much as you want, you can come in here and pass motion after motion after motion, and you can attack members of the house, but you are undermining the integrity of the parliament," she said. "These are committees endorsed by the parliament to do their job, and this is what a massive majority in this state does - you just do whatever you want to do." On Thursday night, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said parliament had acted appropriately and warned MPs about pre-judging inquiries. ‘‘I hope all parliamentarians have learnt a lot of lessons this week in terms of commenting on specifics and drawing conclusions about individual comments and testimonies prior to those people being given the opportunity [to respond] and being denied natural justice,’’ he said. Jackie Trad, one of the MPs that Mr Bleijie has accused of bias over the past two days, said the LNP was failing in its promise to govern with "dignity, humility and grace".

It was instead "governing with arrogance and arrogance, complete and utter arrogance" and was "destroying the architecture" put in place by Tony Fitzgerald. "You want to control it so you can control the outcome and because that is your intent, you will destroy the bipartisan approach to deliberations on this committee," she said. "They are taking the architecture that was put in place for our modern democracy, for transparency and accountability in terms of our system of government, and the institutions of our democracy. "They are taking that architecture and they are destroying it, they are absolutely destroying it, and every single person who votes in favour of this motion, as it stands now, will be condemned. They will be condemned. "This is a slippery slope back to the bad old days and if people don't stand against it now, if they don't stand against it and be counted now, then you stand condemned for allowing it to flourish."

Chair of the PCMC, independent MP Liz Cunningham, was more reserved, seeking to protect the process. "I believe in terms of the pursuit of justice and a good, clear, defended, transparent and just result, that there should be an independent ethics committee, a select committee to consider these matters," she said. But on the motion to dissolve the PCMC membership, Ms Cunningham expressed regret. "I think it is disappointing that the politics of the last few weeks has led to this parliament now considering a motion I believe reflects poorly on what is a unicameral system I believe relies heavily on the committee process,'' she said. Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney said he supported the motion because he believed the committee could no longer do its job.

He said when the PCMC recommended that Dr Levy matter be referred to a select ethics committee, it was admitting the bias of some members and "it could no longer be charged with the responsibility to act for this parliament". "The government is moving to ensure that we do have a strong CMC and we do have a strong and effective PCMC, because the PCMC has come to this parliament and said 'we can no longer do our job', and the reasons they can no longer do their job are clearly illustrated to the parliament by the Member for Bundamba and the Member for South Brisbane. Loading "And of course during the debate tonight, we have heard all of this hysterical paranoia and all of these conspiracy theories about somehow or other we are attacking the CMC or we are dismantling the PCMC, when [it is] quite the opposite. "This parliament has a responsibility to ensure that the PCMC, the composition of the PCMC is such that it can carry out the functions which this parliament charges it."