Queensland’s Cook MP Billy Gordon’s criminal record was disclosed to government during the Bligh era, documents freshly disclosed show.

And according to a report in the Courier Mail, the premier Annastasia Palaszczuk’s office was sent three emails detailing abuse allegations starting March 13.

It is alleged Mr Gordon beat his ex-partner on separate occasions before being elected to parliament after the January 31 election and failed to disclose his criminal history, including burglaries going back to 1987 and an apprehended violence order brought by his mother in 2008.

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On Tuesday a separate allegation of violence was made against Mr Gordon by another woman, Sky News reports.

Ms Palaszczuk called on Mr Gordon to quit parliament on March 29, more than two weeks after the emails were sent.

Mr Gordon has resigned from the Labor Party but has not quit parliament, sparking a crisis for the minority government.

A by-election would be called if Mr Gordon left parliament, but neither Labor or the Liberal Party have expressed willingness to accept his vote.

Neither party has a majority in the Queensland parliament and the government is discussing its future with Katter’s Australia Party MPs.

In his pre-political life, Mr Gordon’s criminal record was scrutinised while he was seeking a job with the Department of Communities in 2008.

A formal investigation is being conducted into the allegations against Mr Gordon.

Voters in the Cook electorate in Cape York delivered Mr Gordon with a 10.2 per cent swing to take 56.8 per cent of the vote after preferences.

Cape York indigenous leader Noel Pearson told Lateline that Mr Gordon should stay until “the next poll”.

“I feel that [the Labor Party] have thrown him under a very brutal bus, and I don’t think that he’s been afforded all of the natural justice that he should’ve been afforded,” he said.

KAP leader Robbie Katter has issued a five-point list of demands that must be met in order to gain his party’s support to form government.

The demands include a development committee for the Galilee Basin coal mining region, investment in two highways, mandatory ethanol in fuel, new water allocations from the Flinders and Gilbert rivers, and a regional development bank.

The party is meeting with both sides of parliament in talks to form government.