Annastacia Palaszczuk has sidestepped questions about how an email she sent from a private account that mentioned her own director-general was not government business, by deferring to advice from the state's Solicitor-General. It came after emails between Ms Palaszczuk's and Cabinet minister Mark Bailey's private accounts were released for the first time, including a January, 2016 email where she refers to her department's director-general Dave Stewart. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Picture, John Gass The released emails have prompted Opposition claims that it "defies belief" that the correspondence was not government business - after the Premier previously told parliament in 2017 that she had never used a private account for official purposes.