Peter Phelps (politician)
Peter Phelps | |
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Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council | |
Assumed office 26 March 2011 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1968 Camden, N.S.W. |
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
Peter Robert Phelps, Ph.D. is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since March 2011. He has previously contested the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Drummoyne in the 1999 New South Wales State election.[1].
He is the current Government whip in the NSW Legislative Council.[2]
Born at Camden District Hospital to Robert Phelps and Gwen Phelps (nee Boughton), in 1968, he spent his early years living in Bradbury, New South Wales and attending the Bradbury Infants School. Later in life his family moved to the Sydney inner-Western suburbs of Camperdown, New South Wales and then Dulwich Hill, New South Wales. He attend Camperdown Demonstration School, Summer Hill opportunity classes, Fort Street High School, and Sydney Universty (St.Pauls College). At Sydney University he obtained his Ph.D. in 1997.[3]
References
- ^ http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/d890a06557517cedca256e700008765e/ac368c4624e299bbca2578710004443b
- ^ http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/common.nsf/key/LCOfficeHolders
- ^ Thesis; Australia, International Diplomacy and the West New Guinea Dispute, 1949-1963, in Fisher Rare Books