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I now turn my attention to ... one Mr Ken Talbot, the chairman of Sunrise Mining (Queensland) Pty Ltd. Mr Talbot has an interesting track record. He 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. Honourable members do not need to be reminded of the very close and personal links that existed between the now disgraced Mr Bond and his close associates, of whom Mr Talbot was one, and the corrupt National Party Government that was thrown out of office in 1989. Nor do honourable members need reminding of the days of deals done in brown paper bags between corrupt National Party figures and shady businesspeople of the ilk of Mr Talbot and Mr Bond. [24] [25]

On 14 August 2009, Nuttall lodged an appeal against his July 2009 conviction and sentence. [26] On 12 February 2010, his appeal against conviction and sentence was heard in the Supreme Court of Queensland. On 23 March 2010, his appeal against conviction was dismissed, and his application for leave to appeal against sentence was refused. [27]

In June 2010, Talbot died in an aircraft accident in Africa and charges against him were dropped. In 2011, Shand was convicted of paying Nuttall a secret commission and sentenced to 15 months jail. [28]

Further convictions and appearance before bar of parliament

On 16 July 2009, the CMC recommended 10 new charges relating to alleged secret cash payments to Nuttall totalling $152,700 from businessman Brendan McKennariey, between December 2001 and April 2006, regarding a government-funded project subcontracted to McKennariey. Nuttall was also charged with five counts of perjury relating to his evidence at a CMC closed hearing. [29] [30]

On 11 October 2010, in the Brisbane District Court, Nuttall pleaded not guilty to five charges of official corruption, five alternate charges of receiving secret commissions and five counts of perjury. [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] On 12 October 2010, McKennariey gave evidence for the Crown. [36] [37] [38] On 27 October 2010, a jury found Nuttall guilty of five charges of official corruption and five charges of perjury. [39] [40] On 16 December 2010, he was sentenced to a further five years imprisonment. [41] On 17 January 2011, the Queensland Government announced it would appeal the "inadequacy" of the sentence. [42] The appeal was heard in the Queensland Court of Appeal on 10 May 2011. [43] [44] On 7 June 2011, the appeal was upheld and an extra two years jail was handed down, extending his non-parole period to July 2015. [45] [46]

On 12 May 2011, 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. Parliament found him to have been contemptuous and fined him $82,000. [47] [48] [49]

Confiscations of property

On 24 September 2009, the CMC commenced actions in the Supreme Court of Queensland under Queensland's Criminal Proceeds Confiscation Act 2002 to seize a property owned by Nuttall at Woodgate, near Bundaberg, having already initiated action to seize another property at Sandgate. [50] [51] On 12 July 2010, the Supreme Court ordered Nuttall to repay $454,000 deemed to be "proceeds of crime" to the state of Queensland and also ordered him to pay the Government's legal costs of $42,000. [52] [53] [54] The legal principle for the property seizure is known colloquially as the proceeds of crime. As at July 2016 the Queensland government launched proceedings to reclaim Nutall's pension scheme account. [55]

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Gordon Nuttall
Queensland Minister for Industrial Relations
In office
22 February 2001 –12 February 2004
Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by Member for Sandgate
1992–2006		Succeeded by
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