Peter Walsh (politician)

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Peter Walsh is a former Finance Minister of Australia and Labor politician. He grew up in Doodlakine, Western Australia, where he was a wheat and sheep farmer. He was elected to the Senate in 1974, and served as Minister for Finance from 1984 to 1990. He was notable for strongly free market views.

In his 1995 memoirs, Confessions of a Failed Finance Minister, Walsh was critical of his colleagues and of political processes in general for failing to curb what he saw as wasteful government expenditure, and unnecessary government intervention.

After leaving politics, he was a columnist for the Australian Financial Review and was particularly critical of environmentalism. He was one of the founders of the Lavoisier Group which opposes the Kyoto protocol on global warming.

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