Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk refused to say if she used a private email account for ministerial business before a ban on using personal accounts for government work came into effect in 2018. 

During an estimates hearing on Monday, Opposition MP Fiona Simpson said the Liberal National Party had received an anonymous email showing correspondence between then energy minister, Mark Bailey and Ms Palaszczuk, using the personal accounts discussing a potential government appointment on April 22, 2015.

Ms Palaszczuk maintains she has not used the account for work since the ministerial code was updated.