{{Short description|Australian teacher, public servant and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = David Winderlich | image = David_Winderlich.jpg | office1 = Member of the Legislative Council <br>of South Australia | term_start1 = 17 February 2009 | term_end1 = 20 March 2010 | predecessor1 = Sandra Kanck | successor1 = Tammy Franks | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1964|1|18}} | birth_place = Adelaide, Australia | party = Australian Democrats (2009)<br />Independent (2009–10) | website = }}
'''David Nicholas Winderlich''' (born 18 January 1964), is an Australian teacher, public servant and politician who in February 2009 was the Australian Democrats nominee to fill a South Australian Legislative Council casual vacancy in a joint sitting of the Parliament of South Australia following the January 2009 parliamentary resignation of the incumbent Democrats member Sandra Kanck.<ref name="SA parl">{{Cite SA-parl|pid=3263|name=David Nicholas Winderlich|former=yes|access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="SA parl2">{{Cite SA-parl|pid=625|name=Sandra Myrtho Kanck|former=yes|access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref> Becoming an independent after nine months, he was the last Democrat to have sat in any Australian parliament. He was not re-elected at the 2010 election.<ref name="SA parl" />
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,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-07-20 |title=Democrats MP divides party with 1,000-member ultimatum |language=en-AU |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-07-20/democrats-mp-divides-party-with-1000-member/1360780 |access-date=2022-12-20}}</ref> which eventuated on 7 October 2009.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-10-07 |title=Last Democrat goes from Aussie parliaments |language=en-AU |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-10-07/last-democrat-goes-from-aussie-parliaments/1094848 |access-date=2022-12-20}}</ref>
Winderlich announced that, as an independent, he would focus on three policy areas: governmental reform,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-03-15 |title=MP urges ICAC to plug crime fighting gap |language=en-AU |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-03-15/mp-urges-icac-to-plug-crime-fighting-gap/1619658 |access-date=2022-12-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-07-01 |title=Burnside CEO reappointment 'illegal' |language=en-AU |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-07-02/burnside-ceo-reappointment-illegal/1339016 |access-date=2022-12-20}}</ref> rights and freedoms, e.g., for bikies,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-06-16 |title=Amendments to tough SA anti-bikie laws |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/amendments-to-tough-sa-antibikie-laws-20090617-cgy7.html |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=The Age |language=en}}</ref> and a sustainable approach to the management of water resources in South Australia. In particular, he was opposed to the Port Stanvac Desalination Plant and to the Wellington Weir proposal.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-03-14 |title=Wellington weir 'will speed up acidification' |language=en-AU |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-03-14/wellington-weir-will-speed-up-acidification/1618744 |access-date=2022-12-20}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Winderlich, David}} Category:Australian Democrats members of the Parliament of South Australia Category:Independent members of the Parliament of South Australia Category:Living people Category:Members of the South Australian Legislative Council Category:1964 births Category:21st-century Australian politicians