{"id":642328,"date":"2026-05-01T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642328\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:26:11","slug":"reza-adib-partner-of-former-queensland-premier-annastacia-palaszczuk-charged-with-three-counts-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642328\/","title":{"rendered":"Reza Adib, partner of former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, charged with three counts of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent surgeon Dr Reza Adib, the partner of former long-serving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/queensland\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Queensland\">Queensland<\/a> premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, has been charged with three counts of rape, two counts of deprivation of liberty and one count of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sexual-assault\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"sexual assault\">sexual assault<\/a>.Police allege Adib sexually assault\ufeffed a woman in her 30s at an address at Goodwin Terrace at Burleigh Heads on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/gold-coast\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Gold Coast\">Gold Coast<\/a> on March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were seen coming and going from the beachside unit yesterday afternoon and leaving with bags of evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7e3f3e93-3b8b-49bb-a2f7-89591f744c1b.jpeg\"   alt=\"Dr Reza Adib arrive for the state funeral for former Governor-General and Labor leader Bill Hayden in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, November 3, 2023.\"\/>Dr Reza Adib has been charged with three counts of rape. (SMH)<\/p>\n<p>Adib presented to Southport Police Station earlier today, where he was charged before being released on police bail this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He left the station with his lawyer and did not answer questions from the waiting press pack.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Dan Rogers, issued a statement\ufeff this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr Adib is shocked about the allegations made about him and is taking the matter very seriously,&#8221; he said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like all persons accused of a crime, he is presumed to be innocent and intends to vigorously defend the charges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c4df53d0-487e-4993-a6a8-559f4a06bf60.jpeg\"   alt=\"Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her partner Dr Reza Adib arrive for the state funeral for former Governor-General and Labor leader Bill Hayden in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, November 3, 2023.  Picture: Dan Peled\"\/>Adib with partner and former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Palaszczuk is not accused of any wrongdoing. (Dan Peled \/ The Sydney Morning Herald)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, Dr Adib is primarily concerned about the welfare of his family and his patients and he will do whatever it takes to ensure that they are looked after in the coming weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adib, a bariatric surgeon at the Brisbane Obesity Clinic, is due to appear in Southport Magistrates&#8217; Court on May 14.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have stressed Palaszczuk was not involved and there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on her part.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have been together since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prominent surgeon Dr Reza Adib, the partner of former long-serving Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, has been charged with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-642328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}