Ministers in court
NZPA-AAP Brisbane The former Welfare Services Minister, Leisha Harvey, was the first former Queensland Cabinet Minister to face the Brisbane Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of misappropriating public funds.
Harvey was charged with 124 counts of misappropriation. She stood quietly in the dock beside her legal counsel and showed no emotion in the packed courtroom.
Harvey offered no plea to the charges and was remanded on
her own undertaking to appear again on January 25.
Other former Ministers to appear yesterday were former Finance Minister Brian Austin, former Environment Minister Geoff Muntz and former Mines Minister Ivan Gibbs.
The former Transport Minister, Don Lane, had not arrived five minutes after the court was due to sit.
The former, Main Roads Minister, Russ Hinze, is scheduled to appear on Thursday.
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