Peter Baldwin was a federal MP for Sydney from 1983-1998, including six years as a minister in the Hawke/Keating government, first as Minister for Higher Education and Employment Services (1990-93) and then as Cabinet Minister for Social Security (1993-96).

Following the change of federal government in 1996, he held Opposition shadow portfolios of Education and Finance before retiring from politics in 1998.

After leaving politics, Peter became interested in argument mapping as a means for raising the quality of debate about public policy issues, and in particular the potential for the web to enable dispersed collaboration on the creation of large-scale argument maps of complex and contentious issues.

Building on his programming experience prior to entering politics, Peter began to develop the Debatemapper software that underpins Debategraph as a web application to facilitate large scale, collaborative argument mapping.

email: peter.baldwin@debategraph.org
tel:  +61 2 4787 7909 (Sydney, Australia)