Peter Baldwin (politician)

In the early morning hours of 17 July 1980, Baldwin assaulted at his home in the nearby Sydney suburb of Marrickville.

Pictures of his battered face dominated the front pages of newspapers around the nation, and led to increased pressure for reform of the party.

[9] After leaving state politics, Baldwin was selected for the federal Division of Sydney following the deselection of the previous right-aligned MP, Les McMahon.

He ran on a platform similar to that advocated by Tony Benn in the British Labour Party, arguing for a revival of Labor's commitment to state ownership and for the implementation of industrial democracy.

[1] After leaving politics, Baldwin developed and co-founded Debategraph in March 2008, a web-based collaborative argument visualisation tool for mapping complex public policy debates which is used by the White House,[11] the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office,[12] and the Amanpour series on CNN.