Peter Maley

Peter John Maley (born 2 August 1969) is a controversial former Australian politician, barrister, solicitor and magistrate. He was the member for Goyder in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2005, primarily as a member of the Country Liberal Party, but also for a short period as an independent member.

Maley studied law at the University College of the Northern Territory obtaining a bachelor of laws with honours from the University of Queensland, worked at Philip and Mitaros, then became a police prosecutor, later lecturing in law part-time at the Northern Territory University. He went into private practice with the firm Withnall, Maley & Co. He was elected to parliament in 2001 and served on the CLP front-bench. In 2005 he was attacked by party leader Denis Burke for spending too much time on outside work. On 19 May 2005 Maley was dismissed by Burke from the party's parliamentary wing, which was the same day that details of a Domestic Violence Order brought by his wife were plastered across the front page of the Northern Territory News. The order was later dropped.

Maley returned to private practice as a Barrister and Solicitor in his own practice Maley's Barristers and Solicitors after the 2005 election.

On 16 September 2013 the Attorney-General for the Northern Territory, John Elferink announced three new appointments to the Northern Territory Court of Summary Jurisdiction. One of the Appointees was Maley. At the time, the Australian Labor Party's Gerry McCarthy stated that it was a "job for the boys" as it was another example of a former CLP politician being given a high profile and important job. Mr Elferink said "Mr Maley has over 19 years of experience as a legal practitioner, working across a broad range of legal disciplines.

Since being appointed a magistrate Maley continued to be involved in the Country Liberal Party by:

- By campaigning for the Country Liberal Party by handing out how-to-vote cards for the CLP during the Blain by-election in March 2014.

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