Peter Morris (politician)

The Honourable Peter Morris OAM
Minister for Transport
In office 11 March 1983 – 24 July 1987
Prime Minister	Bob Hawke
Preceded by	Ralph Hunt (as Minister for Transport and Construction)
Succeeded by	Gareth Evans
Member of the Australian Parliament for Shortland
In office 2 December 1972 – 31 August 1998
Preceded by	Charles Griffiths
Succeeded by	Jill Hall
Personal details
Born	(1932-07-29) 29 July 1932 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Political party	Labor
Occupation	Politician

Peter Frederick Morris OAM (born 29 July 1932) is a former Australian politician.

Morris was born in Sydney and was an alderman on the Newcastle City Council from 1968 to 1974. He won the House of Representatives seat of Shortland in 1972. He was appointed Minister for Transport in the first Hawke Ministry in March 1983. In December 1984, he assumed the additional portfolio of aviation. In 1987, he became Minister for Resources and then was briefly Minister for Housing and Aged Care in early 1988. In February 1988, he became Minister for Transport and Communications Support, but was appointed to Cabinet as Minister for Industrial Relations in September 1988. After the 1990 election he was not re-elected to the ministry, due to the formalisation of Labor's faction system and the fact that he did not belong to a faction.

Morris did not stand for re-election at the 1998 election. Allan Morris, Member of the House of Representatives for the neighbouring seat of Newcastle from 1983 to 2001, is his younger brother. Matthew Morris, the former member for Charlestown in the New South Wales Parliament, was his son.