The Queensland Police Service has "re-established" their Indigenous advisory body, a year on from sacking the previous group with little to no notice.

On Friday the QPS announced the latest iteration of the Police First Nations Advisory Group (PFNAG) to "achieve a diverse and far-reaching representation of First Nations peoples and their perspectives in building relationships and improving policing outcomes".

The 10-person body held their inaugural meeting last week with the QPS arguing it represents a "renewed commitment" by the force to "engage meaningfully with First Nations communities" as well as create culturally safe policing practices.

"I am extremely pleased that we're beginning the year with a reset group of diverse and dedicated community representatives, to help advise the QPS in eliminating racism and improving services for and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples," executive director of QPS First Nations Division and the PFNAG Committee Co-Chair, Alan Dewis, said.

"The QPS is committed to reframing relationships, which respect and recognise the need for diverse voices of Queensland's First Nations communities to build stronger and sustaining partnerships that can make a difference to peoples."

There were 49 expressions of interest according to Mr Dewis, and bring together members from Seisia in the Torres Strait, Cape York, North Queensland, North-West Queensland, Gulf of Carpentaria, and South-East Queensland.

Commissioner of Police Steve Gollschewski said the QPS had made "significant efforts to recruit members from a diverse cross-section of urban, rural and remote First Nations communities".

"I am confident that the First Nations Advisory Group will help us improve safe outcomes for First Nations peoples and communities," he said.

There is limited understanding about the ability of the new body to enact change after the last iteration - the FNAG - were sacked after months of criticism of the QPS - both privately and publicly - about a perceived failure by senior members to implement cultural reforms, first promised in the 2022 Call for Change inquiry.

These included speaking openly about police union president Ian Leavers, who wrote in the Courier Mail in 2023 that the Treaty process - now discontinued by the LNP government - would result in the justice system favouring Indigenous people.

"They are effectively offering a free pass to every rapist, domestic violence abuser, habitual home invader and car thief who tells police they identify as Aboriginal," he said.

Mr Leavers was heavily criticised but kept his job and was also rewarded with a government position in the months after the article.

The FNAG were made aware of their sacking - via email - on February 29 last year after Mr Gollschewski had been appointed and wrote to the QPS to understand why, only to be allegedly ignored.

At the time, the FNAG said they were given contracts six weeks before their sacking, with confidentiality clauses that "would prevent us from speaking publicly about the work of the [group]" — unless approved by the QPS.

It is unclear if the new body will have similar contract conditions.

In 2022, the group accused Mr Gollschewski of displaying aggression during a meeting and telling an Elder "you people" don't run the organisation.

In a statement this week, the QPS said the new body came about "Following an internal assessment of the establishment in 2024, it was identified that the group would benefit from a broader representation of the diverse experiences and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples."

National Indigenous Times reported last year both the QPS and the then-Queensland Labor government refused to answer questions on how or why this review came about.

In May, the QPS argued the FNAG was not meeting its original purpose and intent, but refused to outline how this was the case.

It mirrored issues outlined in the A Call for Change review of the QPS, when then police commissioner Katrina Carroll accepted a former First Nations advisory group was plagued by several inaccurate statements by members of the QPS, including that they were not "properly representative and that there had not been a proper selection process".

Despite this, in similar language, the QPS responded to a question by National Indigenous Times last year by arguing the initial recruitment process the FNAG "lacked representation from the diverse experiences and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples more broadly".

There has been no explanation on why this is apparently the case, or even how after a top-down review in 2022 - which found "attitudes of misogyny, sexism and racism are allowed to be expressed, and at times acted upon, largely unchecked" in the QPS - was the new FNAG selected whilst apparently lacking representation.

Members of the former FNAG previously spoke extensively to National Indigenous Times on condition of anonymity about their treatment and lack of communication from the QPS, arguing they were sacked for effectively doing their job in calling out racism.