Peter McKechnie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia
About Peter McKechnie
- Peter Richard McKechnie (9 February 1941 – 26 May 2011) was an Australian politician. He was born in Goondiwindi to Henry McKechnie and Heather May, née Coulton.
- He worked as a station hand from 1957 to 1958 and a property manager from 1961 to 1968 before becoming a grazier in Charters Towers.
- He married Jeanette Ruth Morwood on 23 May 1964, with whom he would have two children.
- In April 1974 he became electoral secretary to his father, who was the Country Party member for Carnarvon in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
- When his father retired at the election that year, Peter McKechnie was elected as his successor.
- In 1983 he was appointed Minister for Tourism, National Parks, Sport and the Arts, moving to Industry and Technology in 1986 and to Family Services and Welfare Housing in 1987.
- In January 1989 he became Minister for Transport, but in September announced his retirement from politics to care for his wife, who was ill.
- McKechnie died in Toowoomba in 2011.
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