{"id":15758,"date":"2026-05-21T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/15758\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:37:12","slug":"queensland-olympics-minister-tim-mander-stands-down-after-referral-to-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/15758\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland Olympics Minister Tim Mander stands down after referral to AFP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queensland’s Olympics Minister Tim Mander has stood aside from cabinet after he was referred to police by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC).<\/p>\n

The AEC confirmed on Thursday it had made the referral to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) amid questions about his enrolment status.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a statement released late Thursday, Mr Mander said he had told Premier David Crisafulli he was “standing aside” while the matter was sorted.<\/p>\n

“I referred this matter [to the AEC] myself and provided information as requested, so it could be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that I have followed the right processes and all appropriate declarations and disclosures have been made,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I have total confidence this will be resolved and Labor’s attacks disproved, however, I have no intention of this becoming a distraction to the important work of the government.”<\/p>\n

Mr Crisafulli said he was made aware of the AEC’s advice at lunch time, and had accepted Mr Mander’s decision to step aside.<\/p>\n

Mr Mander’s annual salary will be slashed from $390,000 to about $190,000.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

David Crisafulli says he accepted Tim Mander’s decision to step aside. (ABC News: Alex Brewster)<\/p>\n

Tourism Minister Andrew Powell will now administer Mr Mander’s portfolio responsibilities, which include sport and the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n

The AFP has confirmed it received a “report of a crime” from the AEC on Tuesday \u2014 and said it would provide an update at an appropriate time.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the AEC had released a statement, saying it had sought information from Mr Mander about the enrolment matter.<\/p>\n

This included an opportunity for the minister to provide information to the election watchdog to support his enrolment claims.<\/p>\n

“While a determination has not been made, the AEC does consider that there is currently an absence of compelling evidence to determine Mr Mander resided at the enrolled address,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“As such, on 19 May the AEC referred this matter to the AFP for their consideration, and any action they consider appropriate.”<\/p>\n

\"Tim<\/p>\n

Tim Mander is the state member for Everton. (ABC News: Alex Brewster)<\/p>\n

Mr Mander said he welcomed this “next critical step in the process” to disprove what he described as a Labor attack.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, deputy opposition leader Cameron Dick called for Mr Mander to be stood down.<\/p>\n

Mr Dick told reporters members of parliament had a “duty to be honest with Queenslanders”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland’s Olympics Minister Tim Mander has stood aside from cabinet after he was referred to police by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,15572,149,211,12982,3227,1072,5481],"class_list":["post-15758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-electoral-enrolment","tag-politics","tag-qld","tag-qld-politics","tag-queensland-government","tag-state-politics","tag-tim-mander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}