Peter Black (Australian politician)
Peter Laurence Black OAM (born 14 June 1943) is an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, serving between 1999 and 2007. Black is an unaligned Councillor of the City of Broken Hill, elected in 2012.[1]
Career
Black was born in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville and educated at Sydney Boy's Technical High School and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of New South Wales. He was a Science teacher at Willyama High School in Broken Hill before running for New South Wales Parliament. Black became a Broken Hill Council Alderman in 1977 and served a record 19 years as Mayor of Broken Hill, from 1980 until 1999.[2]
Black represented Murray-Darling from 1999 to 2007 for the Australian Labor Party.[3] He was accused of having a drinking problem by other parliamentarians, including his political opponents.[4] Black lost his seat at the New South Wales state election, 2007, after a redistribution gave the expanded Murray-Darling seat an overall National Party majority.
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Member for Murray-Darling 1999 – 2007 |
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