1. Rex Frederick Jackson was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and subsequently imprisoned for conspiracy.
12 Facts About Rex Jackson
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Rex Jackson was the member for Bulli from 1955 to 1971, and the member for Heathcote from 1971 to 1986, representing the Labor Party.
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Rex Jackson was Minister for Youth and Community Services from May 1976 to October 1981.
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Rex Jackson was then Minister for Corrective Services from October 1981 to October 1983.
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Rex Jackson was Minister for Roads from February to October 1983.
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Rex Jackson resigned his ministerial portfolios on 27 October 1983 and from parliament on 13 August 1986.
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Rex Jackson was charged with corruption and sent to trial in 1987.
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The District Court found that Rex Jackson accepted a bribe of 12,000 in 1983 and that he conspired to organise the early release of three prisoners from Broken Hill Correctional Centre to meet gambling debts.
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Rex Jackson was initially sentenced to serve seven and a half years in custody.
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Rex Jackson was sent to prison for ten years, with a non-parole period of five years, serving time at Berrima Correctional Centre.
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For some years, Jackson operated an ice cream van with business partner Col Alexander, called "Col and Rex's Hot Dogs and Ice Cream" which regularly parked at the top of Bald Hill, a popular hang-gliding spot in Stanwell Tops, south of Sydney.
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Rex Jackson was hospitalised and then placed in a nursing home, dying in early 1993.