List of Australian politicians convicted of crimes

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_politicians_convicted_of_crimes

Federal[edit]

Name	Year	Party	Offence	Sentence	Notes	Reference
Michael Cobb	1998	National Party	rorting travel expenses.	MP fined $14,000 and given a two-year suspended jail term		[1]
Pauline Hanson	2003	One Nation	electoral fraud	sentenced to three years jail	subsequently acquitted and found to have been jailed wrongly.	[2]
Andrew Theophanous	2002	ALP	bribery and fraud.	6 years jail		[3]
Craig Thomson	2014	ALP/ Independent	theft and fraud.	12 months jail with 9 months suspended. [4]		[5]

New South Wales[edit]

Name	Year	Party	Offence	Sentence	Notes	Reference
Thomas Ley	1947	Nationalist Party	murder	death, later commuted to confinement in Broadmoor Asylum	suspected of involvement with a number of disappearances, including that of Frederick McDonald, his predecessor as MP	[6]
Rex Jackson	1987	Labor Party	accepting bribes	10 years	former Minister for Corrective Services; increased from 7½ years on appeal	[7]
Tony Packard	1993	Liberal Party	unlawful use of listening devices	convicted, fined $1000		[8][9]
Barry Morris	1996	Liberal Party	making death threats	1 year	decreased from 2½ years on appeal	[10]
Milton Orkopoulos	2008	Labor Party	33 counts, including child sex and drug offences	13 years and 8 months (non-parole period 9 years)	appealed March 2009	[11]
Richard Face	2009	Labor Party	Making a false statement to the ICAC	fined $2500, three-year good behaviour bond		[12][13]

Queensland[edit]

Name	Year	Party	Offence	Sentence	Notes	Reference
Brian Austin	1990	National Party	misappropriating public funds	15 months		[14]
Leisha Harvey	1990	National Party	misappropriating public funds	12 months	7 months served in home detention	[14]
Don Lane	1990	National Party	misappropriating public funds	12 months		[14]
Geoff Muntz	1990	National Party	misappropriating public funds	12 months		[14]
Keith Wright	1993	Labor Party	child sex offences	8 years (non-parole period 4 years), paroled after 5½ years	Former Opposition Leader	[15]
Bill D'Arcy	2000	Labor Party	child sex offences	11 years (non-parole period 7 years)		[16]
Merri Rose	2005	Labor Party	extortion	1½ years		[15]
Gordon Nuttall	2009, 2011	Labor Party	Corruption, receiving secret commissions, theft	15 years (non-parole period 10 years)		[17]
Karen Struthers	2007	Labor Party	Drink driving	$1000 fine and loss of licence for 10 months		[18]

Tasmania[edit]

Name	Year	Party	Offence	Sentence	Notes	Reference
Brenton Best	2002	Labor Party	Drink driving	fine and lose of license		[19][20]
Terry Martin	2011	Independent	Producing child pornography and sexual penetration of a child under the age of 17	suspended sentence		[21]

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Victoria[edit]

Name	Year	Party	Offence	Sentence	Notes	Reference
Carolyn Hirsh	2004	Labor Party	Drink driving	$600 and driving ban of 6 months		[22]
Andrew Olexander	2004	Liberal Party	Drink driving			[22]
Carolyn Hirsh	2006	Labor Party	Drink driving and driving whilst disqualified	$600 and driving ban of 1 year		[23]
Adem Somyurek	2009	Labor Party	Driving whilst disqualified	$300 and 1 month suspended gaol sentence		[24]

Western Australia[edit]

Name	Year	Party	Offence	Sentence	Notes	Reference
Brian Burke	1994	Labor Party	misappropriating public funds	7 months	former state Premier	[25]
Ray O'Connor	1995	Liberal Party	stealing a Bond Corporation cheque from a parked car	18 months	former state Premier	[26][27]
David Parker	1996	Labor Party	perjury	18 months	former state Deputy Premier, paroled after six months	[28]
Wayde Smith	1998	Liberal Party	perjury	18 months	paroled after six months	[29][30]

[debra9275]

Who was that lib from Qld today, something to do with a theft case, not sure whether he's been charged or just stepped down. It was kept pretty quiet in the media I thought

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@debra9275 wrote:
Who was that lib from Qld today, something to do with a theft case, not sure whether he's been charged or just stepped down. It was kept pretty quiet in the media I thought

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He did a bad thing in 1999 when he was in the army and not in politics... He was charged and did his time... end of your  non story

Then you have Michael Coutts-Trotter married to Tanya Plibersek  and he is the  Director-General of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training   In 1986, at the age of 21, he was imprisoned on a nine-year sentence for conspiracy to import narcotics. At the time he was a heroin dealer 

He did his time and look at him today

[debra9275]

Oh well. I hope you've included him in your list then 🙂

As he did something illegal

[cherry*135]

Not a non story. Wouldn't one expect the chair of a special parliamentary ETHICS committee to have a squeaky clean background. Very hypocritical if they don't.

Quote from Couriermail: LIBERAL National MP David Gibson has stood down as the head of a special ethics committee after it was revealed he was charged with four counts of stealing from the Army before entering politics.

Mr Gibson has held a press conference in his electorate of Gympie this afternoon where he has announced he would stand down from the committee.

It comes after Mr Gibson told Radio today that his “mistake” should not prevent him from “serving or doing anything for the people of Gympie”.

Mr Gibson was chosen to chair a special parliamentary ethics committee last year established to question Crime and Misconduct Commission boss Dr Ken Levy over his statements to a separate committee.

[debra9275]

Pretty big "mistake" to make 4 times over i reckon

[cherry*135]

A 31 yo Army OFFICER,, generating 4 false invoices to the value of $7335 is not ethical behaviour.

[spotweldersfriend]

Yeah but he stood down.A very honorable thing to do.

[debra9275]

It's very odd that when someone connected with the labor party does the wrong thing it's a crime, but when it's an LNP member, it's just a "mistake" lol