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About John Lutey
- John Thomas Lutey (18 December 1876 – 22 June 1932) was the Labor Party member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Brownhill-Ivanhoe from 1917 to 1932. John Lutey was born on 18 December 1876 at Eaglehawk near Bendigo in Victoria.
- In 1895 he migrated to Western Australia with his brother and sister, working as a gold miner at Kalgoorlie until at least 1904.
- In 1899, he returned to Victoria for a time, and while there he married Millie Hebbard.
- In 1907 Lutey was working as a filter pressman, and in 1915 he was a mill hand. Lutey became active in the trade union movement, and joined the Australian Labour Party.
- On 19 August 1916, he contested the Legislative Assembly seat of Brownhill-Ivanhoe in a by-election, after the incumbent John Scaddan resigned the seat to contest the seat of Canning in a ministerial by-election.
- Lutey won Brownhill-Ivanhoe, but Scaddan did not win Canning.
- Lutey subsequently resigned Brownhill-Ivanhoe on 15 September, not having been sworn in, to allow Scaddan to reclaim the seat. In May 1917, Lutey unsuccessfully contested for a Western Australian seat in the Australian Senate.
- Two months later he contested Brownhill-Ivanhoe in a ministerial by-election, this time in opposition to Scaddan, who had joined the Nationalist Party.
- Lutey won the seat, and would hold it until his death on 22 June 1932.
- From July 1924 until January 1930, he was Chairman of Committees in Philip Collier's government.
- He's buried in Fremantle Cemetery, WA, Australia.
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