Peter Laurence Black OAM

Order of Australia

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 (born 14 June 1943) is an Australia

Australia

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n politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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Black was born in the Sydney

Sydney

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 suburb of Hurstville

Hurstville, New South Wales

Hurstville is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Hurstville is located 16 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the St George area. Hurstville is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of...

 and educated at Sydney Boy's Technical High School

Sydney Technical High School

Sydney Technical High School is an academically selective, state-funded high school for boys in Bexley, a southern suburb of Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1911 as part of Sydney Technical College, the school was one of the six original New South Wales selective schools...

 and received a Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

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 from the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

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. He was a teacher in Broken Hill

Broken Hill, New South Wales

-Geology:Broken Hill's massive orebody, which formed about 1,800 million years ago, has proved to be among the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits. The orebody is shaped like a boomerang plunging into the earth at its ends and outcropping in the centre. The protruding tip of the...

 before running for New South Wales Parliament.

Black represented Murray-Darling

Electoral district of Murray-Darling

Murray-Darling is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by John Williams of the National Party of Australia....

 from 1999 to 2007 for the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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. He was accused of having a drinking problem by other parliamentarians, including his political opponents. 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

National Party of Australia

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majority.