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| Born | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nathan Turner is an Australianrugby player who playedrugby league professionally for theSouth Queensland Crushers andOldham Bears andrugby union professionally forLeinster.
He is now a criminal defence lawyer and partner in the law firmAnderson Fredericks Turner.[1]
Turner originally playedrugby union as a fullback for theSunnybank club in Brisbane. In 1994 he was selected for theAustralian under-21 tour of Africa but withdrew due to his planned switch of codes the next year.[2]
Turner signed with the newSouth Queensland Crushersrugby league franchise in 1995 and played in their inaugural team on 11 March. However Turner did not establish himself and went on to play in only six matches over the next two seasons. In 1997 Turner joined theOldham Bears in 1997'sSuper League II.[3] However Turner returned to Queensland without playing a match after suffering a foot injury.[4]
In the late 1990s Turner coachedLondon Skolars rugby league club in theNational Conference League. He later managed a playing comeback in rugby union with Leinster and Blackrock College in Ireland.[5]
He currently works as a Barrister-at-Law in Queensland, Australia.