Peter Ross Draper a former Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician, represented Tamworth

Electoral district of Tamworth

Tamworth is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Kevin Anderson of the National Party of Australia...

 as an independent politician

Independent (politician)

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 between 2003

New South Wales state election, 2003

Elections to the 53rd Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday 22 March 2003. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election...

 and 2011

New South Wales state election, 2011

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Draper attended Quirindi

Quirindi, New South Wales

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 High School and lived at Walhollow Aboriginal Mission where his father was principal and manager. He worked for Harper Collins Publishers

HarperCollins

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 for 16 years, the last eight in Sydney

Sydney

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. In about 1982, Draper married and he has two children. The family moved to a small irrigation property near Dungowan in about 1984.