Lindsay Hartwig

Lindsay Hartwig
JP
Lindsay Hartwig JP
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly; for Callide
	In office; 27 May 1972 – 1 November 1986
Preceded by	Vincent Jones
Succeeded by	Di McCauley
Personal details
Born	Lindsay Earle Hartwig; 29 December 1919; Eidsvold, Queensland, Australia
Died	2 April 1996 (aged 76); Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia
Resting place	Garden of Remembrance Cemetery, Toowoomba
Political party	Independent (after 1981)
Other political; affiliations	National (before 1981) ; Liberal (late 1980s) ; Citizens Electoral Council (1988)
Spouse	Estelle Mary Carmody (m.1946)
Occupation	Grazier

Lindsay Earle Hartwig (29 December 1919 – 2 April 1996) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Early life

Hartwig was a farmer and grazier by occupation and pioneered the first aerial sowing of pasture seed.

Politics

Hartwig began his political career as a councillor with the Shire of Monto (1961–1970) and was appointed chairman in 1964.

In 1972, he was preselected for the safe National Party seat of Callide. He was elected at the 1972 election, winning re-election as a National in 1974, 1977 and 1980. In 1981, Hartwig was expelled from the National Party caucus by a vote of 33 to 2 by the party executive for repeated criticism of party president Sir Robert Sparkes. He won re-election as an independent in 1983, but retired at the 1986 election. During his time as an independent, he was elected as the Chairman of the Livingstone Shire Council in a landslide. However, he only served about 11 months as chairman because of continual concerns about his ability to be effective as a shire chairman given his parliamentary duties.^[1]

Hartwig was never appointed to state Cabinet but had a notable achievement in fighting successfully to have Queensland Day officially recognised. He also adopted a unique radio campaign. He put together a race-call commercial and called himself "Lovable Lindsay" who always won by a nose.

After leaving Parliament he became involved with the Liberal Party for a time and contested the 1988 South-Coast by-election for the fringe right-wing Citizens Electoral Council.

Later life

Upon his death in 1996, his former colleagues made a range of tribute speeches; the stories of Hartwig's career were frequently humorous. Hartwig is buried in Toowoomba's Garden of Remembrance Cemetery.^[2]

References

^ "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
^ HARTWIG Lindsay M.L.A. Archived 4 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine — Downs Folk - Lives and times of folk of Toowoomba & the Downs. Retrieved 6 February 2015.