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| Practitioner | Profession | Offence | Outcome | Tribunal | Jurisdiction | Decision date |
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| Anp (Name Suppressed) | Doctor | The anonymised medical practitioner pleaded guilty to distributing child exploitation material after sending an indecent image and two videos to an undercover officer. QCAT found professional misconduct. | Criminal sentence: 15 months’ imprisonment wholly suspended for two years. QCAT reprimanded the practitioner, set aside the immediate suspension, and suspended registration until 27 April 2022. Registration was not cancelled. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2022-01-20 |
| Adrian Cruz Asinas | Doctor | Pleaded guilty to accessing child pornography using a carriage service and possessing child exploitation material. QCAT found professional misconduct. | Criminal orders included 15 months on the Commonwealth offence with immediate release on a $2,000 recognisance for two years; the State 15-month sentence was wholly suspended for two years. QCAT reprimanded him, cancelled registration from 31 October 2021 and disqualified him for 18 months from that date. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2021-09-29 |
| Xpw (Name Suppressed) | Doctor | Pleaded guilty to Queensland offences of making and possessing child exploitation material and a Commonwealth offence of producing such material outside Australia. The conduct included explicit written material and possession of child exploitation images. | Australian criminal orders: 18 months’ probation on State offences without recorded convictions; $1,000 recognisance and three years’ good behaviour on the Commonwealth offence with conviction. QCAT reprimanded the practitioner and imposed a 12-month disqualification. The Board had already refused registration renewal. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2021-12-01 |
| Gopi Ilawala | Psychiatrist | Found guilty on 4 June 2024 at Sydney Downing Centre Local Court, without conviction, of two offences of sexual touching without consent involving an intoxicated colleague at a staff party. NCAT found the criminal-finding complaint established. | Criminal court: two-year Conditional Release Order without conviction. NCAT reprimanded him, required continued attendance with his treating psychiatrist until the offending causes and stress management were addressed, and ordered costs. HCCC sought cancellation and a 12-month non-review period; NCAT did not find him unfit to practise and did not cancel registration. | NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal | NSW, Australia | 2026-06-01 |
| Andrew Churchyard | Doctor | Male patients alleged sexual and indecent assaults during neurological consultations. These are allegations; there was no final tribunal finding on these allegations before his death in 2016. | Medical Board restrictions from 28 May 2015 required a chaperone for male patients. He undertook not to practise on 4 February 2016; the Board suspended registration on 11 February 2016. No final tribunal sanction or permanent exclusion order was made in this record. | VIC, Australia | 2016-02-11 | |
| Mustafa Jamnagarwalla | Doctor | NCAT found inappropriate sexual conduct towards a 12-year-old female patient and deliberate breaches on 33 occasions of a restriction prohibiting female patients, including misleading billing and inadequate records. | NCAT cancelled registration on 9 January 2023, prohibited applying for review for one year, refused his application for a non-publication order and ordered him to pay HCCC costs. | NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal | NSW, Australia | 2023-01-09 |
| Billy Li Yu | Doctor | The supplied compilation records prolonged possession and viewing of child exploitation material: 481 images, 60 videos and 17 system files, with a criminal conviction for possession. Later published QCAT reasons describe sustained offending and misleading accounts of his conduct. | The supplied compilation records reprimand, cancellation and an eight-year disqualification from 25 March 2021. QCAT’s later published Greenland decision independently confirms an eight-year disqualification from March 2021. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | SA, Australia | 2021-06-30 |
| Tom Sun Yap | Doctor | A consultant paediatrician pleaded guilty in July 2023 to accessing, transmitting and possessing child abuse / exploitation material. The offending extended from 2017 to 2022 and involved 2,079 media files. | Criminal orders included concurrent six-month terms, release after four months on a $2,000 recognisance for five years, and a State twelve-month term suspended after four months plus two years’ probation. QCAT reprimanded him, cancelled registration and disqualified him for eight years. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2024-10-31 |
| Luke David Stuart Hamilton | Doctor | Convicted in February 2022 on a guilty plea of possessing child exploitation material. The criminal sentence was four months’ imprisonment wholly suspended for three years. | TASCAT reprimanded him, cancelled registration, imposed a four-year disqualification and prohibited use of the title doctor until re-registration. The supplied compilation also records a health-services prohibition until re-registration. | Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | TAS, Australia | 2025-03-24 |
| John Wayne McMahon | Nurse | The supplied compilation identifies aggravated possession of child exploitation material and a criminal sentence of one year and one month, with seven months’ non-parole. | The supplied compilation records cancellation, ten years’ disqualification and a prohibition on providing health services until re-registration. The Ahpra outcomes index identifies the practitioner, decision date and [2024] SACAT 96. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | SA, Australia | 2024-08-23 |
| Keith Benjamin Greenland | Doctor | Convicted of distributing child exploitation material, accessing it using a carriage service, and possessing it. He voluntarily surrendered registration in March 2020. | Criminal court: 200 hours’ community service for distribution; two years’ imprisonment with immediate recognisance release for accessing material; two years wholly suspended for possession. QCAT found professional misconduct, reprimanded him and disqualified him for five years. Each party bore its costs. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2022-10-13 |
| Juviraj Arulanandarajah | Medical practitioner (general practitioner) | In July 2015, after his birthday celebration where he drank an estimated 17 alcoholic drinks, he sexually assaulted a friend at his home. He later said he had no memory of it. The victim developed post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression, separated from her husband and became isolated from friends. Charged with three counts of sexual assault (September 2016); pleaded guilty in February 2017 in the Magistrates' Court of Victoria to one rolled-up charge of sexual assault. Convicted; 18-month community corrections order, 100 hours of community work and alcohol treatment orders. | Reprimanded and registration suspended for three months from 22 February 2021. The Board had asked for cancellation and a three-year disqualification; the tribunal refused. VCAT rejected the Medical Board's request for cancellation, citing his move to Kalgoorlie (an area of high demand for doctors), reduced drinking, supportive professional references, prompt self-report to AHPRA and a 'low probability of reoffending'. He returned to practice after three months. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | VIC, Australia | 2021-02 |
| Wade Benjamin Brearley | Nurse (enrolled 2007) | 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. | 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. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2012-07-20 |
| Neville Raymond Blomeley | Medical practitioner (general practitioner, sports medicine) | A GP at the Indooroopilly Day and Night Medical Centre, he began a sexual relationship with a long-term female patient during a consultation in November 2010 and continued treating her until July 2012. She had consulted him about marriage difficulties and was being treated for depression; the Board and Blomeley accepted she was vulnerable and that the relationship harmed her mental health. He had a previous disciplinary finding in 2003 for supplying pethidine to a drug-dependent patient. No criminal charges. Professional misconduct finding. | Registration suspended for 15 months from 1 July 2014; reprimand; chaperone conditions for 12 months on return; Board's costs. QCAT (Hon J B Thomas, Judicial Member, with Dr S Pozzi, Dr R Rosengren and P Murdoch) gave a shorter sanction than the Board's proposed two-year suspension, declined extra supervision orders and let the suspension start later so he could hand over patients, citing his references and sporting and Rotary roles. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2014-05-23 |
| David William Field | Registered nurse (clinical nurse, Maryborough Hospital) | On 10 February 2016, after heavy drinking, he argued with his wife, held a replica handgun to her head to scare her, then fired a home-made sawn-off .22 rifle at the front gate. The prosecutor alleged he also put the home-made gun to her head and pulled the trigger. Police found the rifle and about 70 rounds hidden in the house. He did not tell the Board about the charges, his suspension or his sacking. Pleaded guilty in Maryborough Magistrates Court (8 March 2016) to threatening violence (domestic violence offence), dangerous conduct with a weapon, unlawful possession of weapons and possessing prohibited explosives. Twelve months' probation; no convictions recorded. | Registration cancelled and disqualified from reapplying for only one year (he had already been suspended since 2016). No costs order. QCAT (Judge Sheridan with assessors N Alexander, M Halliday and S Lewis). The Health Ombudsman first sought only a 1-2 year suspension, then cancellation with 1-2 years' disqualification; the tribunal chose the minimum one year. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2019-09-02 |
| Shariq Ghulam Yasin | Medical practitioner (psychiatrist) | A Brisbane hospital psychiatrist, he gave a female patient with bipolar affective disorder his mobile number at their first consultation in early 2008, made physical contact, then had months of personal phone calls, car-park kissing and sexual intercourse in Sydney. When her condition deteriorated she was involuntarily admitted to hospital under his care. The tribunal said his conduct 'could be seen as predatory'. No criminal charges. Unsatisfactory professional conduct and misconduct in a professional respect. | Registration suspended for 2 years, with the second year suspended after 12 months on conditions (ethics course, 12 months' supervision on boundary violations); Board's costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Dr Sandra Dunglison, Dr Stephen Pozzi and Glen Lamperd) accepted the Board's joint proposal for suspension rather than cancellation; the Board said it would have sought cancellation had he contested. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2011-06-28 |
| Andrew North | Medical practitioner (general practitioner) | He had a three-year sexual relationship (1999 to 2002) with a woman he was treating as her GP. When his former wife complained in 2011 he signed an 'ardent denial' to the Board, denying the affair three times and attacking his former wife's credibility, and recanted only when the patient confirmed the relationship. No criminal charges. Disciplinary grounds established, including a false statement to the Board's investigator. | Reprimand; 3 months' suspension, itself suspended after one month on conditions (boundary counselling, Board access to his patient and Medicare records for 2 years); reprimand removed from the public register after 2 years; Board's costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Dr Kong Goh, Fiona Petty and Dr John Waller) accepted the jointly proposed orders and limited how long the reprimand stays on the public register. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2012-07-20 |
| John Michael Jones | Medical practitioner (general practitioner) | He treated an enrolled nurse and her husband for stress and anxiety from 2008, knowing their marital problems and that the husband was at risk of self-harm, then began a sexual relationship with her and lived with her for a time while continuing to treat her family. The patient said she felt manipulated and reported comments that could be seen as grooming. No criminal charges. Professional misconduct finding. | Reprimand; 6 months' suspension, which stopped after 2 months on conditions (12 months' boundary counselling; restricted to aged-care practice for 4 months); Board's costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Dr Sandra Congdon, Trevor Jordan and Dr David Rosengren) lifted the suspension after two months and allowed him to keep practising in aged-care homes. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2012-07-25 |
| Jordan David Hennig | Medical radiation technologist (radiographer) | Over six months he stalked a nurse colleague: using a work computer, he created a fake female identity with a website, email and phone number, offered her modelling work, won her trust and procured nude and sexually explicit photographs of her, using information he got at work. Pleaded guilty to unlawful stalking; sentenced November 2009 to a fine and 2 years' probation. | Registration cancelled, but he could reapply once his probation ended (November 2011) and a psychologist reported favourably; 12 months of mentoring and employer reporting on return; $6,000 costs by instalments. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with M Buckley, L Cross and G Rattray). The Board itself proposed that he be allowed to reapply after only 9 months; the tribunal extended this only to the end of his probation. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2010-11-26 |
| Clem Richard Peter Bonney | Medical practitioner (general practitioner) | A GP, he used the internet to access child abuse material. A psychologist said it was part of compulsive pornography use that 'crossed the child pornography boundary'. Pleaded guilty to one count of using a carriage service to access child pornography (Criminal Code (Cth) s 474.19(1)); 12 months' imprisonment, released immediately on an 18-month good behaviour and supervision order. | No suspension at all: conditions only, including a chaperone for any patient under 18, ongoing psychological treatment, Board monitoring of records; conditions not reviewable for 3 years; Board's costs. He kept practising. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President) made the orders jointly proposed by the Medical Board of Australia, which itself sought only conditions; the Board took no action over two breaches of his voluntary undertakings, accepting them as inadvertent. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2010-11-02 |