Peter Joseph Aloysius Coyne (6 July 1917 – 4 November 2001) was an Australian politician who was a

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member of the Legislative Assembly of

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from 1971 to 1986, representing the seat of Murchison-Eyre. Coyne was born in

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, a port city in Western Australia's

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region, but his family moved to Yalgoo soon after his birth. After leaving school, he worked as a miner and metallurgist, and then at Agnew as a storekeeper. Coyne enlisted in the

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(RAAF) in 1941, and during the war served as a radio technician, eventually reaching the rank of flight sergeant. After the war's end, he returned to Agnew for a period, and then went to live in

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, where he also worked as a storekeeper, television salesman, and life insurance salesman.Peter Joseph Aloysius Coyne
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 3 June 2016. Coyne entered parliament at the 1971 state election, succeeding the retiring

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as the member for Murchison-Eyre. He retired at the 1986 election, having served as deputy chairman of committees from 1980 to 1981, and died in Perth in 2001, aged 84.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coyne, Peter 1917 births 2001 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly People from Geraldton Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II 20th-century Australian politicians Royal Australian Air Force airmen