Bill Hewitt

William Douglas Hewitt (31 October 1930 – 23 November 2016) was an Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Early life Bill Hewitt did not have a happy childhood. His father was a World War I veteran who often told his children how he had seen 6,000 men killed in a day, which Hewitt said made him a "rather serious child". After completing primary school, he initially worked in Carricks Furniture Factory, which he hoped would lead to an apprenticeship, but didn't. Later, he worked as an office boy at Castlemaine Perkins and the company paid for him to study accounting at night school, after which he became an office manager and a business manager.

Politics Hewitt joined the Liberal Party in 1950, becoming president of the Queensland Young Liberals.

In 1975, Hewitt did not support Joh Bjelke-Petersen's nomination of Albert Field to replace deceased federal Labor senator, Bertie Milliner, as this was against the wishes of the Labor Party. However, Field was appointed, triggering the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis leading to the dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.