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A senior Queensland minister has sought to discredit the Australian chapter of a global anti-corruption organisation in response to revelations by this masthead of a suite of quiet board appointments by his government since the state election.

Education and Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek, a former LNP opposition leader, was asked about board appointment reforms recently reiterated by Transparency International Australia chair Dr AJ Brown at a Friday morning media conference.

Langbroek described the identity of the group, launched in 1995 to raise awareness of corruption and combat it, as “murky” and suggested it was only suggesting improvements now the LNP was in government in the state.

The comments have sparked a swift rebuke from the group’s chief executive, as the Labor

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