Peter Laurence Black OAM (born 14 June 1943) is an Australian former who served as the member for Murray-Darling in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1999 and 2007. Prior to this, he was mayor of Broken Hill from 1980 until 1999.[1]
Career
editBlack 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 September 1980 until September 1999.[2]
Black represented Murray-Darling from 1999 to 2007 for the 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 2007 New South Wales state election, after a redistribution gave the expanded Murray-Darling seat an overall National Party majority.
References
edit- ^ "Broken Hill City Council: Summary of First Preference and Group Votes for each Candidate". Local Government Election 2012. Electoral Commission of New South Wales. 15 September 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ "Council in the red, but will Black come back?". ABC News. Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
- ^ "Mr Peter Laurence Black". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "Controversies of Peter Black". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 March 2004. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
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