Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch

Australian Labor Party Victorian & NT ALP Branch Membership Record

  • Continuous ALP Membership since1980 (NT Branch Member 2008-2011).
  • Current continuous Victorian Branch Member since 2011.
  • Kew ALP Branch Secretary & Executive 1984- 1988; Kew Branch President 2001 -2003.
  • Victorian State Conference Delegate 1987- 1989, 1989-1991, 1991-1993, 2016 -2018
  • Victorian Administrative Committee Member 1989-1991.
  • Victorian Public Office Selection Committee Member 1988-1989
  • ALP Health and Welfare/Community Services Policy Committee, Member 1987-1990, 2001-2002.
  • Secretary, ALP Health and Welfare Policy Committee 1988 – 1990.
  • Member, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Policy Committee 2001-2002
  • (10) Member Labor for Refugees since 2003 – Committee Member since 2023
  • (11) Victorian President , Labor for Refugees, National /State Coordinator 2024 -2026
  • Labor Candidate for Deakin 2004 Federal Election (13)
  • Labor Candidate for Kooyong 2022 Federal Election
  • Northern Territory Labor Party Member 2008 – 2011
  • Alice Springs Branch, Executive Member 2010 & 2011

Union Membership

  • Australian Workers’ Union 2003- 2008
  • Health Services Union ( No 1 Branch 1988 -1994)

Medical Experience

  • Junior and Senior appointments in Public Hospitals in Victoria and the U.K.
  • Practice as a Consultant Physician in Melbourne (1984- 2008)
  • Chief Medical Officer, Health Department Victoria / Health &Community Services, 1992-1993.
  • Medical Director Alice Springs Hospital 2008 – 2011
  • Clinical Director Aged Care Medicine Peninsula Health 2011-2018 .
  • Visiting Medical Officer (VMO) Large Not for Profit Health Network ( 2019 -2026)

Commonwealth Government Health Advisory Bodies

  • Member, National Health and Medical Research Council, 1992 –1993.
  • Member, Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, 1987 – 1997.
  • Professional Services Review Committee 2017 - 2022

Governance Boards

  • Member, Peninsula Health Care Network Board 2000- 2003
  • Member, Frankston -Mornington Peninsula Medicare Local Board 2012 -2015
  • Member, Uniting Aged Care of Victoria & Tasmania Board 2007-2008
  • Member, Ballarat Health Services Board 2017-2021

Health consumer / Policy advocacy

  • President, Doctors Reform Society, 1986-1987

Community Group Involvement

  • Australia – East Timor Association – active member 1975 onwards
  • Oxfam (Community Aid Abroad) –active member/supporter
  • Medicans Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) – active member/supporter
  • Australian Fabian Society

Policy Interests

  • Federal
  • Health and Aged Care, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Economic Management, Social Security, Environment, Agriculture, Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Commonwealth - State Relations, Industry Policy.
  • State
  • Health, Aged Care and Community Services, Environment, Transport, Economy, Regional and Rural Affairs, Commonwealth –State Relations.

Overseas Experience

  • United Kingdom (14months), East Timor (3 months at Dili Nacional in August 2003).
  • A.U.S. Village Scheme (Papua) December – January 1969 –1970
  • Health /Aid Scheme Visits: Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, East Timor.

Qualifications

  • M.B.B.S. (University of Melbourne) 1973 Master of Health Administration (University of New South Wales) 1996 Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (F.R.A.C.P.) 1982 Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) 2014

Previous General Publications

  • “Labor’s Lost Opportunity for All - Sketching a Road Map for Federal Labor’s Long March Forward.” Australian Fabian News. Australian Fabian Society. Volume 45 No 3, July-September 2005.
  • “How to build a better Labor Party”. Opinion Pages , The Herald Sun 08/07/05.
  • “We need a new way to select all candidates. A US style primary system could work for both sides of politics”. Opinion Pages, The Age, 09/03/06.