Peter Walsh (Australian politician)
- Peter Walsh (Australian politician)
Peter Alexander Walsh AO (b. 11 March 1935) is a former Australian Senator and Labor politician.
Walsh grew up in Doodlakine, Western Australia, where he was a wheat and sheep farmer. He was elected to the Australian Senate in 1974, and served as Minister for Resources and Energy from 1983 to 1984 and Finance Minister from 1984 to 1990.[cite web]
title =Biography for Walsh, the Hon. Peter Alexander, AO
publisher =Parliament of Australia
work=ParlInfo Web
url =http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?id=8070&table=BIOGS
accessdate = 2007-10-27 ] He was noted for his pro-free market views.[cite web]
url=http://www.samuelgriffith.org.au/papers/html/volume9/v9chap7.htm
title=Labor and the Constitution: Forty Years On
work=Samuel Giffith Society
accessdate=2008-02-17
author=Walsh, Peter] In his 1995 memoirs, "Confessions of a Failed Finance Minister", Walsh was critical of his colleagues and of political processes in general for failing to curb what he saw as wasteful government expenditure, and unnecessary government intervention. [cite book
last =Walsh
first =Peter
title =Confessions of a failed finance minister
publisher =Random House Australia
date =1995
location =Milsons Point, N.S.W
pages =291
url =
isbn =0091829992 ]
After leaving politics, he was a columnist for the Australian Financial Review and was particularly critical of environmentalism. He was one of the founders of the Lavoisier Group which opposes the Kyoto protocol on global warming. In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006, Clive Hamilton (director of The Australia Institute) identifies Walsh as one of his list of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen", a group of climate change skeptics with considerable influence over Australian Government policy. [cite web
first=Clive
second=Hamilton
authorlink=Clive Hamilton
title =The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
publisher =The Australia Institute
date=20 February 2006
url =http://www.tai.org.au/documents/downloads/WP84.pdf
format=pdf
accessdate = 2007-10-27 ]
Notes
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NAME = Walsh, Peter Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH = 11 March 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH = Kellerberrin, Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH = Living person
PLACE OF DEATH =
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