Report on an investigation into a Memorandum of Understanding between the Coalition and the QPUE and an investigation into an alleged deal between the ALP and the SSAA

This report, tabled in Parliament on 20 December 1996, presents:

• an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the creation and execution of a Memorandum of Understanding executed by the Honourable Robert Borbidge MLA (then Leader of the Opposition), the Honourable Theo Russell Cooper MLA (then Coalition Spokesman for Police, Corrective Services and Racing), and Sergeant Gary Wilkinson, the President of the Queensland Police Union of Employees, on a date not specified but believed to be in or about December 1995/January 1996; and
   
• an investigation into the circumstances surrounding any agreement between the ALP and the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (Inc) and the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (Qld) Inc., or either of them of the kind alleged in media reports on various dates in April 1996.

The Terms of Reference for the Inquiry were tabled in Parliament on 3 April 1996.