Maverick MP Jo-Ann Miller blasts colleagues for leaks

LABOR MP Jo-Ann Miller has lashed her ­colleagues for leaking details of the dressing-down she was given by a group of MPs at last month’s caucus retreat.

Queensland Member for Bundamba Jo-Ann Miller. Picture: AAP Image/Dan Peled

MAVERICK Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller has lashed her ­colleagues for leaking details of the dressing-down she was given by a group of MPs at last month’s caucus retreat.

It wasrevealed last month that a group of MPs used an open forum session on the first day of the two-day retreat to take aim at Mrs Miller for her embrace of One Nation matriarch Pauline Hanson and her gift of baby booties to Ms ­Hanson in the dying days of the November election ­campaign.

The Courier-Mail can further reveal Mrs Miller rose behind closed doors in Labor’s pre-Budget caucus meeting yesterday afternoon to call for action to be taken against those who leaked the details of the dressing-down.

She defended her actions during the election, detailing her gift of booties to three Labor MPs on the birth of their children – Minister Mark Ryan, Government whip Don Brown and assistant Minister Brittany Lauga.

It is understood that Mrs Miller described the dressing-down that took place at the ­retreat as orchestrated.

She was met with silence from her caucus colleagues.

Mrs Miller was contacted for comment, but declined, saying she would not breach caucus confidentiality.