Billy Gordon has released a statement detailing his past convictions.

In an announcement Sunday lunchtime in Townsville, Palaszczuk said "I've made it very clear his position isn't tenable".

"It is a past that isn't pleasant and it's a past that was kept from me and the deputy premier," she said.

Queensland Labor MP Billy Gordon has released a statement detailing a criminal history that was previously undisclosed to his colleagues.

Billy Gordon / Via Facebook: BillyGordonforLeichhardt

The former partner also alleged that Gordon had failed to pay child support.

"Throughout my life I have had to overcome many challenges and adversities. In particular as a young indigenous boy," he wrote.

"One of the things that I do remember wishing for the most, even into my years as a teenager, was for a perfect father figure, especially since as a young man I also had serious contact with the criminal justice system."

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