Peter Beattie

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Peter Beattie, 2006

Peter Douglas Beattie AC (born November 18, 1952 in Sydney ) is an Australian politician ( Australian Labor Party ). He was the 36th Prime Minister of the state of Queensland from June 1998 to September 2007 and from 1996 to 2007 chairman of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland.

One of his political achievements is that he put an end to the so-called land clearing in Queensland, in which 400,000 hectares of vegetation were destroyed annually ( Vegetation Management Act 1999 ).

Early life

Beattie was born in Sydney , the youngest of seven children . He grew up with his grandmother in Atherton , a small town in northern Queensland , and attended Atherton State High School. He moved to Brisbane to study at the University of Queensland and completed a Bachelor of Laws . At university he was President of the Student Club at St John's College. He completed his Master of Arts and started working as a lawyer.

Prior to his election to Parliament, Beattie was an attorney for the Supreme Court of Queensland and secretary of the Railway Stationmasters' Union.

Publications

  • Making a difference. HarperCollins, Pymble, NSW 2005.

Web links

Commons : Peter Beattie  - collection of images, videos and audio files