Peter Richard Nagle is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

 from 1988 to 2001, representing the electorate of Auburn.

Nagle was born in Sydney, and studied at Benedict Boys High School, Macquarie University

Macquarie University

Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...

 and the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

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. He worked variously as a lawyer, union official and TAFE

Technical and Further Education

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 teacher before entering politics. He also served a stint in the Army Reserve from 1962 to 1967, and was elected to the Auburn Council

Auburn Council

Auburn Council is the governing body of a local government area in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, about 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district...

 from 1970 to 1976.

Nagle won election to the safe Labor seat of Auburn at the 1988 election on the retirement of Wran

Neville Wran

Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1986...

 government minister Peter Cox

Peter Cox (politician)

Peter Francis Cox, AO was an Australian politician.-Early life:Cox was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, and educated at Marist Brothers College in the Sydney suburb of Lidcombe. His father, Edwin, was a plumber with the NSW railways. Ben Chifley, the future prime minister, helped the Cox family...

. He was re-elected in 1991, 1995 and 1999, before retiring mid-term in 2001, resulting in a by-election

Auburn by-election, 2001

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Auburn on September 8, 2001....

 that was won by Labor candidate Barbara Perry

Barbara Perry

Barbara Mazzel Anne Perry MP, , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Auburn for the Australian Labor Party since 2001. Perry is the Shadow Minister for Ageing, Shadow Minister for Disability Services, Shadow Minister for Family and Community...

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