David Hinchliffe (Australian politician)

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David Hinchliffe is the Deputy Mayor and Leader of the Majority Councillors in the Brisbane City Council. As Deputy Mayor, David is the Deputy Chair of Brisbane City Council’s Civic Cabinet and acting Lord Mayor in the absence of the Lord Mayor Campbell Newman.

David Hinchliffe is also the leader of the 17 Australian Labor Party Councillors who form the majority in the Council. Council is made up of 26 Councillors and the Lord Mayor and is the ultimate decision making body for Brisbane City Council.

Cr Hinchliffe is the Brisbane City Councillor for Central Ward. The Central Ward comprises the suburbs of Red Hill, Paddington, Spring Hill, Fortitude Valley, New Farm and parts of Bardon, Milton, Kelvin Grove, Bowen Hills, Newstead and the Central Business District.

David has been a research officer, speech-writer and journalist. He is a practising visual artist and has had more than sixteen solo exhibitions. His art also appears in public on traffic signal control boxes in the inner-city suburb of Fortitude Valley in which his ward office is also located.

David has also served on many community boards. He is currently the President of Brisbane West Senior Citizens Centre.

David was elected to Brisbane City Council in 1988 and has been a member of Civic Cabinet since 1991. He is also Chairperson of the Urban Planning and Economic Development Committee.

As a Chairperson, David is responsible for policy development in the following program areas:

  • community health and safety
  • recreation, cultural development, social policy
  • pollution prevention
  • community information and libraries
  • economic development
  • cultural policy
  • animal management
  • tourism

Following the 2004 Council Election there were some tensions due to the fact that the Lord Mayor Campbell Newman (who is elected in a presidential style from the whole of the Brisbane populous) was from a different political party Liberal Party of Australia to the majority of the councillors Australian Labor Party lead by Cr Hinchliffe, who are elected on a Ward by Ward basis.

There were consequentially only a few minor disputes between Cr Hinchliffe and the Lord Mayor along party grounds. Most of these disputes involved issues such as who the Lord Mayor could appoint as his representatives to invited events, parties and gatherings; whether Council could amend the Council's budget as proposed by the Lord Mayor; if Council advertisements should be approved by both sides of politics; and if Cr Hinchliffe would be allowed to employ a small number of professional staff.

The "marriage of convenience" between a Liberal Lord Mayor and a Labor Deputy Mayor has not impeded Campbell Newman from implementing his election promises when he has proposed them to Council.

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