David Nicholas Winderlich (born 18 January 1964), is an

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and

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who in February 2009 was the

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nominee to fill a

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in a

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of the

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following the January 2009 parliamentary resignation of the incumbent Democrats member

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. Becoming an

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after nine months, he was the last Democrat to have sat in any Australian parliament. He was not re-elected at the 2010 election. On 20 July 2009 Winderlich announced that, unless 1,000 new members joined the Democrats SA division by 23 November, he would leave the party and sit as an independent, which eventuated on 7 October 2009. Winderlich announced that, as an independent, he would focus on three policy areas: governmental reform, rights and freedoms, e.g., for bikies, and a sustainable approach to the management of water resources in South Australia. In particular, he was opposed to the

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and to the Wellington Weir proposal.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Winderlich, David Australian Democrats members of the Parliament of South Australia Independent members of the Parliament of South Australia Living people Members of the South Australian Legislative Council 1964 births 21st-century Australian politicians