Don Livingstone | |
Office: | Queensland Government Chief Whip |
Term Start: | 22 February 1995 |
Term End: | 20 February 1996 |
Premier: | Wayne Goss |
Predecessor: | Warren Pitt |
Successor: | Lawrence Springborg |
Constituency Am1: | Ipswich West |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 17 February 2001 |
Term End1: | 9 September 2006 |
Predecessor1: | Jack Paff |
Successor1: | Wayne Wendt |
Term Start2: | 2 December 1989 |
Term End2: | 13 June 1998 |
Predecessor2: | David Underwood |
Successor2: | Jack Paff |
Birth Date: | 1 October 1948 |
Birth Place: | Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia |
Death Place: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia |
Birthname: | Donald Wallace Livingstone |
Nationality: | Australian |
Party: | Labor |
Alma Mater: | Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education |
Occupation: | Political advisor |
Donald Wallace Livingstone (1 October 1948 - 15 October 2015) was a politician in Queensland, Australia.
Donald Wallace Livingstone was born in Kingaroy, Queensland on 1 October 1948. He moved to Ipswich at the age of seven. He was married to his wife Cheryl in October 1972; the couple had two children. Livingstone and his wife owned two delicatessens, earning him the nickname "Deli Don".
Livingstone was a policy advisor to the Minister for Public Works and Housing before entering politics himself. He was the Labor Party's Queensland campaign director 1983 - 1986, and served on Ipswich City Council from 1985 to 1990. In 1989, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for Ipswich West. In 1998, he was defeated by Jack Paff, the One Nation candidate. Livingstone defeated Paff (running for the City Country Alliance) in 2001, and served until his retirement in 2006.[1]
Livingstone died from stomach cancer at the Ipswich Hospice on 15 October 2015.[2] Several hundred people attended his funeral at the North Ipswich Reserve on 20 October 2015. At the funeral, Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale announced that he would honour Livingstone's dying wish to see the hospice's car parking and pedestrian crossing upgraded. He was buried at Warrill Park Cemetery.[3]
The bridge over the Bremer River at One Mile/Leichhardt was named the Don Livingstone One Mile Bridge in February 2015.[4]