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Disgraced former Queensland Labor minister Gordon Nuttall has died aged 71.

He was diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer in 2023.

Nuttall was first elected as the Labor MP for Sandgate in 1992 and maintained the seat until 2006.

Gordon Nuttall
Gordon Nuttall. (Fairfax Media)

Nuttall served as deputy chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee from 1996 to 1998.

He was the industrial relations minister before being promoted to health minister from 2004 to 2005 under then-premier Peter Beattie.

However, his political journey was tainted by charges of corruption and perjury following his 2009 conviction for accepting over $500,000 from two businessmen, whom he assisted in obtaining profitable government contracts.

Some of his crimes were only discovered during an investigation into whether he lied over the Jayant Patel scandal.

Nuttall received a 14-year sentence, which was the longest ever given to an Australian politician, and he was released in 2015 after completing six years in prison.

He has maintained that he never did anything wrong.

” I have made many mistakes along the way, but I have never knowingly or wrongfully set out to do wrong,” he said in 2022.

Nuttall is survived by his former partner, children and grandchildren.

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