Donald Wallace Livingstone (1 October 1948 – 15 October 2015) was a politician in

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, Australia.

Early life

Donald Wallace Livingstone was born in

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on 1 October 1948. He moved to

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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

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, earning him the nickname "Deli Don".

Politics

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

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from 1985 to 1990. In 1989, he was elected to the

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as the Labor member for Ipswich West. In 1998, he was defeated by

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, the One Nation candidate. Livingstone defeated Paff (running for the

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) in 2001, and served until his retirement in 2006.

Later life

Livingstone died from stomach cancer at the Ipswich Hospice on 15 October 2015. Several hundred people attended his funeral at the

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on 20 October 2015. At the funeral, Ipswich mayor

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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.

Legacy

The bridge over the Bremer River at One Mile/

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was named the Don Livingstone One Mile Bridge in February 2015.

References

1948 births 2015 deaths Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly People from Kingaroy Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-Queensland-MP-stub