Peter Lockwood

Peter John Lockwood is an ICT professional and former Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from 2002 to 2006. He started working life in the Commonwealth Bank, but gave that up to work on the government buses in Sydney. After completing a computer course, he worked as a computer operator at DHA (Drug Houses of Australia), then moved to other employers in Sydney before moving to Canberra to join the Australian Public Service during the period of the Whitlam Government, where he was part of the last Programmer in Training (PIT) intake in the public service, where tertiary study at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra) and on-the-job training in automatic data processing (ADP) were combined. After 9 years in Canberra, he moved to Melbourne, where Lockwood joined Myer. Following a period at Myer, Peter became a business proprietor during 1985–1991. He went on to work for PAXUS, Telstra and IBM. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Swinburne University in 1987, and served on Knox City Council from 1993–94, 2000–2003 and 2012-2020. From 1989–2002, he was a secretary of the Knoxfield branch of the Labor Party and secretary and state delegate of the Aston FEA (Federal Electorate Assembly) for the ALP 1991-2002. Peter stood as a Labor candidate for Wantirna in 1992, a disastrous election for Labor.