Peter Wear | |
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Born | 1949 |
Occupation | Newspaper Columnist |
Peter Wear is a Brisbane-based writer whose columns appear regularly in The Courier-Mail . Wear ran a long-running satire on Queensland politics with the major role played by "President for Life Mbeattie" - a reference to Premier Peter Beattie's longevity in office. [1]
Wear also wrote "The Madding of Daniel O'Hooligan" Published by University of Queensland Press in 1991.
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