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Peter Cleeland

Australian politician

Summary

Australian politician

Field	Value
name	Peter Cleeland
image	Petercleeland.jpg
constituency_MP	McEwen
parliament	Australian
predecessor1	New seat
successor1	Fran Bailey
term_start1	1 December 1984
term_end1	24 March 1990
predecessor2	Fran Bailey
successor2	Fran Bailey
term_start2	13 March 1993
term_end2	2 March 1996
birth_date
birth_place	Preston, Victoria
death_date
nationality	Australian
party	Australian Labor Party
occupation	Policeman

| honorific-prefix = | honorific-suffix = Peter Robert Cleeland (31 May 193816 September 2007), Australian politician, was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the electorate of McEwen in Victoria between 1984 and 1990, and subsequently between 1993 and 1996.

Cleeland was raised in the Melbourne suburb of Preston, earning a trade as a fitter and turner before joining the Victorian Police Force from 1961 to 1969.{{Cite journal | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820084115/http://www.afpa.org.au/get/402.pdf | archive-date=20 August 2006 | url-status=dead

In 1982 Cleeland unsuccessfully stood for election in the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Doncaster. He achieved Labor Party preselection for the newly formed federal House of Representatives seat of McEwen, which he won in 1984.{{Cite web

Cleeland served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority between 1987 and 1990, producing during that time the much cited report "Drugs, Crime and Society". The report recommended harm minimisation rather than criminalisation as a technique for managing illicit drug use.{{Cite web

Cleeland died on 16 September 2007 from motor neurone disease.{{Cite web

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