Peter John Maley is a former Australian politician. He was the member for Goyder

Electoral division of Goyder

Goyder is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1990, and is named after George Goyder, the South Australian surveyor responsible for carrying out the first freehold surveys in the area...

 in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly

Northern Territory Legislative Assembly

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 from 2001 to 2005, first as a member of the Country Liberal Party

Country Liberal Party

The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

 and then as an Independent

Independent (politician)

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Maley studied law and became a police prosecutor, later lecturing in law part-time at the Northern Territory University. He was elected to parliament in 2001 and served on the CLP front-bench, but he resigned after a dispute with then leader Terry Mills

Terry Mills (politician)

Terrence Kennedy Mills is the current Country Liberal Party leader and opposition leader in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 29 January 2008...

. In 2005 he was attacked by new party leader Denis Burke for spending too much time on outside work, and he was expelled from the CLP's parliamentary wing. Maley served the rest of his term as an independent and did not contest the 2005 election.