Gordon Nuttall
| Gordon Nuttall | |
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| Queensland Minister for Industrial Relations | |
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In office 22 February 2001 – 12 February 2004 |
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| Premier | Peter Beattie |
| Succeeded by | John Mickel |
| Queensland Minister for Health | |
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In office 12 February 2004 – 28 July 2005 |
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| Premier | Peter Beattie |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Robertson |
| Queensland Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries | |
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In office 28 July 2005 – 7 December 2005 |
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| Premier | Peter Beattie |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Sandgate |
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In office 19 September 1992 – 9 September 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Nev Warburton |
| Succeeded by | Vicky Darling |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Gordon Richard Nuttall 13 June 1953 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Occupation | State Organiser for the Queensland Branch of the Electrical Trades Union |
Gordon Richard Nuttall (born 13 June 1953) is a former Australian 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. 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, the longest jail term for corruption handed to a Commonwealth politician. He was released on parole in July 2015.
Nuttall won the seat of Sandgate at the 1992 state election as the Labor candidate, succeeding the retiring former Labor Opposition leader, Nev Warburton. He was previously an organiser for the Electrical Trades Union.
He served in the Beattie Ministry as:
In 2004 he attempted to become Deputy Premier with a plan to overthrow the then Premier, Peter Beattie. However, a leadership challenge received no support from then Deputy Premier Anna Bligh, whom Nuttall proposed as the new Premier. Ms Bligh later said, "I didn't see it as any serious proposition that would have received any support from my colleagues and it didn't receive any support from myself."
In July 2005, he resigned as Minister for Health following media exposure of problems at Bundaberg Base Hospital. In June 2010, following a number of investigations, the hospital's director of surgery, Jayant Patel, was convicted and jailed for seven years on three counts of manslaughter and one count of grievous bodily harm to patients in his care. 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. Premier Peter Beattie opted to take over the portfolio himself, relocating Nuttall to the primary industries and fisheries portfolio.
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