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Wade Benjamin Brearley
Last updated: 2026-10-18T09:32:02.434Z
- Practitioner name
- Wade Benjamin Brearley
- Name as recorded
- Wade Benjamin Brearley
- Profession
- Nurse (enrolled 2007)
- Decision date
- 2012-07-20
- Offence category
- Child exploitation material; voyeurism
- Offence
- Between August 2008 and October 2009 he accessed child abuse material on numerous occasions and saved it to portable devices; some images were in the most serious categories (penetration, sadism, bestiality). While on duty as a nurse he secretly filmed up the skirt of a female nurse colleague (upskirting); the image was found when police searched his computer. Pleaded guilty to 19 counts of using the internet to access child pornography, one count of possessing child pornography and one upskirting offence (Criminal Code (Qld) s 227A(2)). Longest jail term 2 years; released after 5 months on a suspended sentence, then 2 years' probation.
- Outcome
- Reprimanded; barred from reapplying for registration for 3 years and until he completes 12 months of counselling and psychiatric treatment and a health assessment. If re-registered, 2 years of conditions: no nursing agency work, no care of under-18s without direct supervision, no internet access at work without supervision. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with assessors Alan Barnard, Wayne Sanderson and Beryl Valentine) accepted orders jointly agreed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board and Brearley, leaving the door open for him to return to nursing.
- Outcome type
- Disqualified (not permanent)
- Outcome length
- 3 years
- Category
- Not recorded
- Tribunal
- Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Case name
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia v Brearley [2012] QCAT 323
- Citation
- [2012] QCAT 323
- Tribunal decision date
- 2012-07-20
- State
- QLD
- Tribunal city
- Not recorded
- National board
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
- Registration status
- Not recorded
- Official outcome (tribunal/board)
- Disqualified (not permanent) 3 years
- Source confidence
- Not recorded
- Notes
- Permanently barred: No Source: CaseChat AU, 2012-07-20
Decision-makers
- Judge Fleur Kingham (Deputy President) · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Alan Barnard · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Wayne Sanderson · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Beryl Valentine · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Sources
https://casechat.au/cases/au/nursing-and-midwifery-board-of-australia-v-brearley