Gordon Richard Nuttall was born on 13 June 1953 and is an Australian former politician who represented Sandgate in the Queensland Parliament from 1992 to 2006.
17 Facts About Gordon Nuttall
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Gordon Nuttall was a member of the Labor Party and served as a minister in the Beattie Ministry from 2001 to 2005.
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Gordon Nuttall was previously an organiser for the Electrical Trades Union.
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However, a leadership challenge received no support from then Deputy Premier Anna Bligh, whom Gordon Nuttall proposed as the new Premier.
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Gordon Nuttall blamed the system he had inherited as well as the administrators at the hospital for the situation which had arisen, but ultimately stepped down from the health portfolio.
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Gordon Nuttall resigned from the Ministry on 7 December 2005 and retired from Parliament at the September 2006 election.
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Gordon Nuttall resigned from the Labor Party on 12 December 2006 before he was referred to the party's Disputes Tribunal, which could have expelled him.
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In 2006 the CMC began an investigation into a series of loans Gordon Nuttall received from Queensland mining magnate Ken Talbot.
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Gordon Nuttall was later charged with receiving a further secret commission of $60,000 in 2002 from businessman and WorkCover Queensland director Harold Shand.
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Ten years earlier, on 12 May 1998, Gordon Nuttall said of his benefactor, Talbot, in Parliament,.
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Gordon Nuttall is a former senior employee of Bond Coal, led by one Alan Bond, who, of course, is currently serving a jail term for white collar fraud.
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On 14 August 2009, Gordon Nuttall lodged an appeal against his July 2009 conviction and sentence.
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On 16 July 2009, the CMC recommended 10 new charges relating to alleged secret cash payments to Gordon Nuttall totalling $152,700 from businessman Brendan McKennariey, between December 2001 and April 2006, regarding a government-funded project subcontracted to McKennariey.
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Gordon Nuttall was charged with five counts of perjury relating to his evidence at a CMC closed hearing.
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On 11 October 2010, in the Brisbane District Court, Gordon Nuttall pleaded not guilty to five charges of official corruption, five alternate charges of receiving secret commissions and five counts of perjury.
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On 12 May 2011, Gordon Nuttall was brought before the bar of parliament to answer 41 charges of contempt of parliament for non-disclosure, as a member of parliament, of pecuniary interests totalling $368,866.55.
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On 12 July 2010, the Supreme Court ordered Gordon Nuttall to repay $454,000 deemed to be "proceeds of crime" to the state of Queensland and ordered him to pay the Government's legal costs of $42,000.