Qld MP Ros Bates didn't mislead parliament EMBATTLED Queensland Arts and IT Minister Ros Bates won't be referred to the parliamentary ethics committee for tabling an incorrect lobbyist register last year. Ms Bates has been defending herself since tabling the register in October. She later amended it to include eight meetings, emails and phone calls with lobbyist Santo Santoro, and 14 with representatives from Santoro Consulting, saying a staffer accidentally left out a page. The revised register also contained three points of contact her office had with lobbyist Luke Myers, the brother of Premier Campbell Newman's chief of staff. Ms Bates told parliament at the time: "The original document was tabled in haste by my staff member after six o'clock. It was an administrative error that anybody could have made. It was a mere Excel spreadsheet. There were two pages to the Excel spreadsheet. It was faxed, at the behest of the opposition, during that time. Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Mulherin wrote to the Speaker of the House Fiona Simpson in November alleging Ms Bates was in contempt of parliament for deliberately misleading the house. But Ms Simpson told parliament on Thursday that tabling an incorrect document is not a contempt of parliament. It only became a possible contempt if the person intended to mislead. "The lack of accuracy in the tabled document is regrettable," Ms Simpson said. But that does not mean that the initial tabling was done with the intention to mislead. She said members are encouraged to address mistakes as soon as possible and if a correction itself was evidence of a contempt, "we would quickly have few voluntary corrections." Ms Bates again faced questioning by the opposition in parliament on Wednesday over a meeting she had with former Brisbane mayor-turned lobbyist Sallyanne Atkinson. The meeting took place in her ministerial office on April 12 but wasn't declared on her lobbyist register. The Courier-Mail reported other meetings between Ms Bates' senior staff and Ms Atkinson were also not declared, including one where the former councillor presented a list of candidates for arts boards. Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk asked what was discussed at the April 12 meeting, including any board appointments. But Ms Bates said she didn't have to declare the meeting because it was of a personal nature. "She (Ms Atkinson) is a life member for the LNP," Ms Bates told parliament. She congratulated me on my appointment. I have had no conversation with anybody, particularly Sallyanne, about board appointments.