A View From The Horizon My Life In Politics And Beyond by Peter Duncan

In A View from the Horizon one of South Australia's most influential political reformers tells his life story with frank disclosure. Five years after he graduated as a lawyer, aged 28, Peter Duncan entered the South Australian Parliament as the member for Elizabeth. In just his first year in parliament, the young reformer introduced a Private Members' Bill, which later prompted former Chief Justice Michael Kirby to describe him as 'the father of homosexual law reform in Australia'. Three years later, in 1975, he became Attorney-General in Don Dunstan's socially progressive Labor Government. Amid controversy and negotiation, he initiated a raft of reformist legislation, notably the abolition of capital punishment and the criminalisation of rape in marriage. Peter Duncan resigned from state politics in 1984 to take on the new federal seat of Makin for the Hawke Labor Government.

Publisher:	Wakefield Press
Year:	2024
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781923042513
Condition:	Near Mint

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SKU: 1599815
Location: Political Biography