Following yesterday's announcement that Queensland MP's will be getting a $57,000 pay rise due to unlawful freeze four years ago, acting premier Jeff Seeney today said that taxpayers are free from shouldering the pay rise.

That is, if MPs and all government officials, past and present, DO NOT make a claim for their back pays. Queensland MPs and retired state MPs are entitled to get the pay rise while state MPs appointed from 2009 onwards, and former MPs on a parliamentary pension were all entitled to receive a huge amount of back pay.

According to Mr. Seeney, the Government has no power to stop officials from claiming their back pays because they have lawful rights to claim the money. Approximately, the back pays for all the federal officials will reach tens of millions of dollars and as far as the number of officials rightfully entitled to the amount, Mr Seeney said, "We don't know how many of them there are..."

However, he declared that he will name and hang the dirty laundry of any officials who will selfishly claim their back pays even with the knowledge that taxpayers will shoulder the pay rise which is more than the average weekly wage (according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures).

According to a report from Goldcoast.com, those Gold Coast Labor MPs not elected for the 2012 election expressed that they are not interested to claim for their back pay.

In a recent report from The Australian, Mr Seeney assured taxpayers that they are free from the burden of paying the pay rise of MPs. He said that he is looking into implementing a "cost-neutral" cut from electoral allowances taking half from it and another half from the public money funding political parties.

He promised taxpayers that more cuts will be employed just to ensure that taxpayers will not be burdened by the issue.

In an interview with the ABC radio, Mr Seeney said, "I will keep cutting allowances and I will keep cutting the money that was paid to political parties until such a time as we get a cost neutral outcome. I'm determined that the people of Queensland aren't going to pay an extra dollar.

In another interview with ABC radio, former Labor Minister Robert Schwarten admitted that he had welcome the thought of claiming his back pay because he is legally entitled to it but then he still thinks he will not do it.

Mr Schwarten said, "I have always had the view that any worker that's entitled to money should get it, but this is probably a different circumstance."

Meanwhile, Unions expressed that the government should amend laws giving equal pay rates to state MPs and their counterparts in the federal government. According to Queensland Council of Union boss, John Battams, the Newman government have amended laws in the past and that it should act in the same way for the current issue.

But Mr Seeney thought otherwise, "I think the system we have, where an independent statutory authority makes these decisions, is the best one. I don't think there's any appetite to change that."