Brian Austin

Brian Douglas Austin is an Australian politician and Minister of Health and Minister for Finance and Minister Assisting the Premier and Treasurer and who represented the state seat of Wavell for the Liberal Party and then for the National Party. In 1983, Austin switched to the National Party.
In 1987, Austin was one of three ministers who told Governor Walter Campbell that Bjelke-Petersen no longer had enough support to govern. That was a precursor to the caucus coup that saw Bjelke-Petersen deposed as premier later that year.
Austin was subsequently implicated in the corruption being investigated by Fitzgerald Inquiry and was forced to retire in 1989. He was convicted on 25 counts of misappropriating public funds, involving $8700 spent on private accommodation, travel and meals, and was sentenced to 15 months' jail.
In 2010, Brisbane's Courier-Mail reported that Austin was selling real estate in the exclusive Brisbane suburbs of Ascot, Hamilton and Clayfield.