Peter Baume

Peter Erne Baume (30 January 1935—) is a retired Australian doctor, politician and academic.

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Baume was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney Grammar School before graduating from the University of Sydney in 1969; he then studied gastroenterology in the United Kingdom and the United States, before returning to Australia to practise.

Baume was a Senator for New South Wales from 1974 to 1991, representing the Liberal Party. He served as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (1980–1982) and Minister for Education (1982–1983) in the Fraser Government. Of his time in politics he commented that it was “service to people in a different, more direct way” but that he “never ceased to be a medical practitioner in the Parliament”. Throughout his political career he continued to publish in medical journals (Mellor, 2006).

After leaving politics, Baume took up a position as Professor of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and studied euthanasia, drug policy and evaluation. He is Patron of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of New South Wales.

(via Wikipedia)

Baume, Peter Erne. (n.d.). The University of Sydney School of Medicine Online Museum. The University of Sydney. https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Baume,_Peter_Erne

Mellor, L. (2006). 150 Years, 150 Firsts: The People of the Faculty of Medicine. Sydney: Sydney University Press.