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Black was born in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville and educated at Sydney Boy"s Technical High School and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of New South Wales.
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Peter Black
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Black is an unaligned Councillor of the City of Broken Hill, elected in 2012. Black became a Broken Hill Council Alderman in 1977 and served a record 19 years as Mayor of Broken Hill, from 1980 until 1999. Black represented Murray-Darling from 1999 to 2007 for the Australian Labor Party.
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 majority.
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