List of Australian politicians convicted of crimes

[nero_bolt]

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]

[cherry*135]

Or a non story..LOL indeed

[spotweldersfriend]

Sinnerdinos is a non-story also.$2000 per hour to shovel money into LNP slush funds isn't criminal.It's moonlighting 🙂

[cherry*135]

Oops

STEPHANIE SMAIL: David Gibson served as Queensland's Police Minister for two weeks in 2012, but he was forced to resign after failing to pay speeding fines and driving without a licence.

ABC

[j*oono]

Liberal.  Hit a number of cars and damaged them on the way home from a wedding when he was so drunk he can't even remember and had a 'nervous breakdown' to get off the hook.

Let's write that one off too shall we? 2014.

[lind9650]

For LOL, at least the Victorian Labor Pollies only love their drink and drive.

I have always said that all politicians are tainted. I dn't trust any one of them.

They are all in it for their ego and to feather their nest. Liars, thiefes, blackmailers, murderers and peadofiles. Some have not come that far yet, but they are lerning, and learning ho to get away with it.

God help Australia!

[fourandsixpants]

reply to nero.

Thanks for posting this nero. Gee and these are probably just a few as there are probably quite a lot that either got off due to being a politician. Quite a few boozing, stealing, lying, perverts......in positions of trust where they are supposed to be acting in our best interest.

Why aren't they subjected to/required to be screened and pass regular police checks and other national security checks? ....like anyone else working in positions of trust etc 

Disgusting actually, really disgusting.

I feel ashamed for the few politicians who are not like this but have to work with others who are unsavoury in their lifestyles, habits and behaviours.

Nothing to separate the good from the bad.

[silverfaun]

Convicted of crimes seems to be the pivotal word. There are many more paedophiles and thieves who have not been convicted.

Sexual predators and paedophiles seem to have an affinity for political life. I'd love to post a list of politicians who have not been charged but the whispers and downright proof is there  but they have either died or resigned.

[lakeland27]

it would be more than likely from the rather fertile imaginations of the usuals anyway.

is mary jo fisher on the list ? when bill snedden  died 'on the job' in that K cross hotel  he was comiting an offence. Ms Pliberseks partner is not a politician BTW. the point of this thread is a little hard to fathom, would the OP care to enlighten us in regard to motive i wonder ?

[lakeland27]

and i think you already mentioned ray.

[donnashuggy]

Can we have a list of those not convicted? You know, the ones who had friends in high places or unlimited funds for the best legal team in town?