In one email, tabled during an estimates hearing, Transport Minister Mark Bailey wrote to the Premier about a job candidate’s ideological stance before he was hired.
A second email discussed “an autonomous vehicle future” and the third was about a Tesla announcement.
Ms Palaszczuk responded from her email account apbounce11 to Mr Bailey’s email about autonomous cars.
The advice found the discussion about autonomous vehicles was “made and received in a party political capacity and was not a document that related to the affairs of the agency”.
Ms Palaszczuk said the emails “were unsolicited”.
Mr Thompson found that an email discussing former director-general Paul Simhauser’s ideological perspective before he was hired was “more problematic”.
“On balance, however, I do not consider it is a record received by the Premier in the course of carrying out the Premier’s portfolio,” his advice read.
Former legal advice from Kerri Mellifont QC in 2017 found the email was not required to be disclosed as it was not a “document of a minister” and was “received in a party political capacity”.
Ms Palaszczuk said the four emails had been examined by the Crime and Corruption Commission and “they found no impropriety, nothing of interest whatsoever in any of them”.
“The Solicitor-General advises that the emails either do not satisfy the requirement of a record or would be exempt within the exception outlined in the act,” she told Parliament.
“For completeness, I wish to reiterate that these emails were unsolicited.
“Furthermore, the emails have also been through the independent Right to Information process.”
