FORMER LNP MP Matt McEachan has failed in an attempt to have Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk ruled to have misled Parliament in October in a reply to a question without notice.
Ms Palaszczuk had been asked if the Labor Party had put One Nation last on how-to-vote cards in the seat of Lockyer in the 2015 election.
Mr McEachan argued that her answer was misleading as there was no instruction on the card about where to put One Nation.
He also said that there was a clear implication that Labor was suggesting that any preference would suffice.
Then Speaker Peter Wellington said he considered the matter trivial or of a technical nature because the effect of placing the preference for a candidate last or not attributing a preference amounted to the same outcome.
Mr Wellington made the ruling, leaving it in the hands of incoming Speaker Curtis Pitt to restate his ruling.
He said he decided not to let the matter ride over to the current Parliament so as to leave a clean slate.
In making his decision, he acted under standing orders which required that no matter should be referred to the ethic committee if it was of a technical or trivial nature and did not warrant further attention of the house.
