Qld MP Pyne to reveal deputy premier abuse

Labor defector Rob Pyne says the verbal abuse he received from Deputy Premier Jackie Trad was so harsh he can't repeat it in public.

But Mr Pyne says he plans to tell parliament's powerful ethics committee exactly what she said.

Speaker Peter Wellington on Thursday accepted Ms Trad's request to refer herself to the committee over claims she'd bullied Mr Pyne while he was still a Labor MP.

Mr Pyne said he'd answer any questions the committee put to him.

"As long as you act openly and honestly you don't get into trouble in these things," he said.

But he was a bit more coy in front of news cameras on Thursday when asked what Ms Trad had said to him.

"Well, you know, it's a family show, I'm not going to repeat those words here," Mr Pyne said.

"I'd say (the conversation was) more robust from her end than mine, but there's no point going over those grounds as far as I'm concerned."

Mr Pyne was referring to comments Ms Trad made earlier in parliament when she denied bullying the Cairns MP, instead insisting the pair "had robust conversations".

"Parliament is a robust place and nobody in this House is a shrinking violet," she said.

Ms Trad referred herself to the ethics committee to neutralise an onslaught of opposition attacks over the bullying claims made against her.

"It is clear that the opposition is going to continue to attempt to gain advantage through political smear on the basis of tabled documents that contain nothing but hearsay and anonymous allegations and innuendos against me," she said.

The claims surfaced after Mr Pyne's friend Jason Ward made a formal complaint to Treasurer Curtis Pitt in December last year.

He also signed a statutory declaration, which Mr Pyne tabled in parliament earlier this week.

Mr Pyne said he was careful not to make an official complaint himself, but suggested he agreed with Mr Ward's complaint.

"Mr Ward is a prolific note-taker and chronicler of events and I haven't seen him get it wrong yet," he said.

Mr Ward's complaint also contains allegations Housing Minister Mick de Brenni tried to stop Mr Pyne - a quadriplegic - from accessing his microphone in parliament, blocked his wheelchair and talked about hitting him with a cricket bat.

It comes after Mr Pyne told parliament earlier this week his former Labor colleagues had referred to him as a "traitor, a megalomaniac and an LNP dog" following his resignation.

An Electrical Trades Union organiser also launched an expletive-laden Facebook tirade against Mr Pyne after he threatened to back an LNP government if Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk tried to call an early election.

The opposition seized on the comments this week, attempting to link Labor to "union thuggery".