Peter Drummond

Peter Hertford Drummond (21 August 1931 – 10 December 2013) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987, representing the seat of Forrest for the Liberal Party.

Early life Drummond was born on 21 August 1931 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He later moved to Western Australia where he was a farmer and grazier.

Politics Drummond was president of the Mount Barker branch of the Liberal Party from 1970 to 1971.

Drummond was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1972 federal election, defeating the incumbent Australian Labor Party (ALP) member Frank Kirwan. He was one of the few Liberal candidates to defeat incumbent Labor MPs at the election, which was attributed to concerns over ALP support for agriculture and forestry. Drummond was re-elected on six further occasions, coming closest to defeat in 1983 when Forrest became the most marginal seat in Western Australia. He retired from parliament at the 1987 election. In 1973 Drummond intervened on behalf of an American living in his electorate who was being deported for possession of cannabis. He was opposed to apartheid in South Africa and in a 1977 speech to the Inter-Parliamentary Union called for an end to white minority rule in Rhodesia.

Personal life In 1983, Drummond and his wife were injured in a car accident when a vehicle driven by Senator Reg Withers struck a tree and burst into flames near Donnybrook, Western Australia.

Drummond died on 10 December 2013 in Albany, Western Australia.