The Queensland government has been accused of "whitewashing" after finally releasing a controversial report on a 2017 email scandal.
The Liberal National Party claim it was a watered down version of a report into Transport Minister Mark Bailey secretly using private emails for official business that was tabled to parliament late on Friday.
The document, written by former state archivist Mike Summerell, has been under lock and key since 2017.
The original report suggested Mr Bailey had breached the Public Records Act and potentially the Criminal Code by carrying out official government business on his private email address "Mango-cube-6", the Nine Network said.
The "scathing" document reportedly added Steven Miles - now the Deputy Premier - and fellow minister Mick de Brenni also used private email accounts for official purposes.
"The evidence of this investigation is that the use of private email accounts by ministers is potentially widespread," Nine Network claimed Mr Summerell's report said.
"The widespread nature and frequency of this practice was disturbing."
However, the opposition claimed an altered version of the report was tabled to parliament at 5pm AEDT on Friday.
LNP leader David Crisafulli said the tabled document did not mention Mr Miles or Mr de Brenni and featured "multiple discrepancies" with the original report.
It also reportedly did not suggest Mr Bailey may have broken the criminal code and left out "two key recommendations", including one that addresses the appropriateness of prosecution for people who breach the Public Records Act.
"The dumping of government documents late on a Friday is bad enough, but what has been exposed in them is explosive," Mr Crisafulli said.
"The differences between an original report by an independent officer and the one whitewashed by the government are damning.
"This is further evidence that there is an integrity crisis burning through the Queensland government."
Mr Miles was asked whether he used a private email account for official purposes at a December 2020 estimates hearing, and replied: "No, I do have a private email account though".
Mr Crisafulli said Mr Miles had "clearly misled parliament".
"This isn't about something that happened in 2017. Integrity doesn't have a use-by date," he said.
"Nothing short of a full blown royal commission into systemic corruption in this government will cut it."
The report is among a series of misconduct allegations made against the government recently.
The Crime and Corruption Commission is also investigating whether senior public servants in 2021 took a laptop from Integrity Commissioner Nikola Stepanov's office and deleted its contents.
Dr Stepanov, who's stepping down in July, has also said the government cut her funding and staff, and even tried to have her removed.
Meanwhile, a Queen's Counsel is probing misconduct allegations made by Mr Summerell.
He has alleged interference in his role and his reports, potentially leading to parliament being misled.
Separate reviews are looking at whether the CCC, the Integrity Commissioner and the Office of the Independent Assessor, the local government watchdog, are fit for purpose.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has rejected calls for a sweeping integrity probe to look at a series of allegations against the government.
