Gordon Nuttall

Gordon Nuttall
Queensland Minister for Industrial Relations
In office
22 February 2001 – 12 February 2004
PremierPeter Beattie
Succeeded byJohn Mickel
Queensland Minister for Health
In office
12 February 2004 – 28 July 2005
PremierPeter Beattie
Succeeded byStephen Robertson
Queensland Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries
In office
28 July 2005 – 7 December 2005
PremierPeter Beattie
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Sandgate
In office
19 September 1992 – 9 September 2006
Preceded byNev Warburton
Succeeded byVicky Darling
Personal details
Born
Gordon Richard Nuttall

(1953-06-13) 13 June 1953 (age 71)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Political partyLabor
OccupationState Organiser for the Queensland Branch of the Electrical Trades Union

Gordon Richard Nuttall (born 13 June 1953) is an Australian former politician who represented Sandgate in the Queensland Parliament from 1992 to 2006. He was a member of the Labor Party and served as a minister in the Beattie Ministry from 2001 to 2005. In 2009 he was found guilty of corruptly receiving secret commissions during his time in office and jailed for seven years.[1][2][3][4] In 2010, he was found guilty of five charges of official corruption and five charges of perjury and, ultimately, jailed for an additional seven years,[5] the longest jail term for corruption handed to a Commonwealth politician.[6] He was released on parole in July 2015.[7]

  1. ^ "Nuttall found guilty of corruption". ABC News. 15 July 2009. Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  2. ^ "Nuttall jailed for 7 years". ABC News. 17 July 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  3. ^ Jury finds Nuttall guilty of corruption – Sydney Morning Herald (AAP) – (27 October 2010) – Retrieved 27 October 2010
  4. ^ Gordon Nuttall: From MP to inmate Archived 30 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine – ABC Online (27 October 2010) – Retrieved 27 October 2010
  5. ^ Nuttall gets two more years jail Archived 9 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine – The Sydney Morning Herald – Christine Flatley – (7 June 2011) -. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  6. ^ More jail time for corrupt government minister Gordon Nuttall Archived 14 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine The Courier Mail (16 December 2010) – Mark Oberhardt -. Retrieved 30 January 2011
  7. ^ "Gordon Nuttall: Former Queensland Labor MP released from Queensland jail on parole". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.