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 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

^ "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.

Civic offices
Preceded by Kevin Clarke	Mayor of Broken Hill 1980 – 1999	Succeeded by Ron Page
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
New district	Member for Murray-Darling 1999 – 2007	Succeeded by John Williams