Findings in a 58-page report released on Friday, are a blow to Mike Summerell, whose vocal criticism of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk helped spark an integrity crisis for her Government.

Mr Summerell had claimed that he was pressured to remove negative remarks and create misleading annual reports to avoid anything embarrassing or damaging to the Government.

John McKenna QC’s report rejects all of Summerell’s assertions.

He said that in each of the three years reviewed, “nothing occurred which could fairly be described as a ‘direction’ to the State Archivist to make changes”.

There was no documentary evidence that any changes suggested were improper.

“There is no reasonable basis in the contemporaneous documents to suspect that any of these changes were suggested for improper reasons,” Mr McKenna’s report says.

However, Summerell hit back, posting on social media that he hoped people would treat the report “with the same indifference that I do”.

“I know what happened. This report does not provide a summary of the full events or the implications of the changes that occurred. …file it in the trash…under B.”

“Many people know the reality of the events that occurred and the pressure that was applied to me. I am truly disgusted by their continued silence.”

Mr McKenna wrote that the documents showed the changes to Summerell’s annual reports were suggested as part of ordinary processes in preparation of annual reports to ensure reports were precise, accurate and justified.

And he found it was not difficult to see why queries were raised about statements made in the annual reports in question.

In the first annual report, 2017-2018, the queried paragraphs were too vague and in some respects had the potential to leave a misleading impression, he found.

In the other two reports, Summerell had sought to include in his personal message section a strongly-expressed opinion that the Public Records Act should be substantially amended.

McKenna said that in these circumstances it was reasonable and appropriate for the departmental officers to make suggested changes.

“In my view there is no basis in the evidence to suspect that any of these queries or suggestions were made for improper reasons.

“Further, in my view, the changes did not result in the reports being misleading or in failing to disclose matters that should properly have been disclosed … In summary, in my view, there is no reasonable suspicion that any of the persons involved in the preparation of these annual reports acted other than lawfully and appropriately.”

In compiling his report, McKenna had access to the original versions of the annual reports in question and the changes suggested and subsequently made.

Summerell’s allegations of political interference in his work as well as complaints from Integrity Commissioner Nikola Stepanov abut her treatment at the hands of senior bureaucrats have touched off a political storm over the government’s performance on openness and accountability.

Ms Palaszczuk has appointed former Queensland University of Technology vice-chancellor Peter Coaldrake to review the culture of the state’s public service.