Donald Wallace "Don" Livingstone (born 1 October 1948) is a former Australia

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n politician. Born in Kingaroy

Kingaroy, Queensland

Kingaroy is an agricultural town in Queensland, Australia, approximately or about 2½ hours drive north-west of the state capital Brisbane. The town is situated on the junction of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways...

, Queensland

Queensland

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, he was a policy advisor to the Minister for Public Works and Housing before entering politics himself. He was the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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's Queensland campaign director 1983–1986, and served on Ipswich City Council from 1985 to 1990. In 1989, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 as the Labor member for Ipswich West

Electoral district of Ipswich West

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. In 1998, he was defeated by Jack Paff

Jack Paff

Jack Kelvin Paff is a former Australian politician. Born in Taree, New South Wales, he served in the Citizens Military Force and rose to the position of sergeant. Before entering politics, he was a stationmaster with New South Wales Railways and then served in the Queensland Police Force...

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

City Country Alliance

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