Premier promises to release secret corruption reports

Corruption watchdog reports into former Queensland politicians are set to be released by a Liberal National Party government aiming to fulfil a laundry list of election commitments.

Moments after David Crisafulli and deputy Jarrod Bleijie were sworn into their leadership roles by Governor Jeannette Young on Monday, it was time to get back to work.

The government has promised to publicly release Crime and Corruption Commission reports into former Deputy Premier Jackie Trad and ex-public trustee Peter Carne.

The commission was unable to release the reports after a High Court ruling last year.

Then an independent review's recommendations adopted by the former government this year restricted the release of reports that contained "critical commentary or expression of opinion" on public officials.

It's not known if the commission's report made any findings against Ms Trad.

Mr Bleijie has promised to make the reports public which may involve law changes.

"I will be asking this afternoon, when we get the briefings of those two reports, and how we can make those available to the Queensland public," he told reporters.

"They should be made available.

"They should have been made (available) by the Labor Party and it's unfortunate that the Labor Party didn't do it before the election, and we know why, because they were protecting their mate Jackie Trad."

The LNP is confident it has won 53 seats while counting remains under way, with the government holding at least 48 to Labor's 30.

Labor MPs are soul-searching after the party lost some regional seats including Rockhampton and Mackay for the first time in a century.

Former premier Steven Miles said he couldn't have run a different campaign given the number of Queenslanders who had already made up their minds, especially on crime issues.

"I think in hindsight, the government was too slow to respond to the escalating crimes that we saw in 2021 and 2022, particularly in places like Townsville," he told ABC Radio.

"When we did respond with a plan, that worked and was pushing back down those crime rates but by then, too many people had experienced it, and they had made up their mind."

Labor's priority will be regaining trust in regional areas after losing significant ground to LNP outside the southeast.

Mr Miles said he would wait until all seats were decided and a caucus was formed before asking to remain party leader.

Labor had governed for 30 of the last 35 years, with Mr Crisafulli becoming the LNP's first Queensland premier since Campbell Newman's 2012-2015 stint.

The full cabinet will be decided and sworn in later in the week.

Mr Crisafulli left the door open for changes despite announcing before the election that his shadow ministry would follow into government roles.

However, he clarified senior leadership would remain and the majority of shadow ministers would stay in their portfolios with some additions, including open data and integrity.

"The people who you have seen and who have done a really good job will be the people who you see will be rewarded," Mr Crisafulli said.

The LNP will look at restructuring departments while the last ballot papers are counted and the make-up of the parliament is finalised.

"What we don't want to see is the constant changes to government departments that we have seen in recent years," the premier said.

"By keeping departments and making them as stable as possible, it will enable us to benchmark the success of the KPIs that we set."