Background
Zwar was born in Broadford, Victoria in 1873.
Zwar was born in Broadford, Victoria in 1873.
The British government told them if they emigrated to Australia, they would be treated as British subjects, and they moved to Broadford in 1850. Zwar was elected as a United Australia Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Heidelberg at the 1932 state election. The UAP had become the Liberal Party by the 1945 election, at which an electoral redistribution abolished Heidelberg, placing Zwar in the new, notionally Labor seat of Preston, while shifting the more conservative areas of his old electorate to the new seat of Ivanhoe.
In October 1945, Zwar announced that he would not be an endorsed Liberal candidate for the forthcoming election and would contest as an Independent Liberal.
He also stated that he did not belong to the Liberal Party and paid no party subscription. Zwar was president of the Preston Football Club from 1926 until 1944, then served as president of the Victorian Football Association from May 1944 until 1947.
Zwar died in Kew, Melbourne, Victoria.
He was re-elected four times for the United Australia Party, and regularly attended and voted in party meetings, though he did not necessarily vote the party line, claiming "conscience as the final court of appeal".
