Peter Whelan

Peter is a successful Sydney businessman. For 25 years he was Managing Director of electrical engineering company Uniserve Pty Ltd and more recently Chairman of CSE-Uniserve Pty Ltd and Director of several related companies.

In 2007 he resigned those positions to concentrate on his investments and interests in beef cattle farming and deer hunting. He is also Treasurer of Glenorie RSL Club.

Peter is a foundation member and currently President of the Coalition of Law Abiding Sporting Shooters Inc (CLASS Action) and author of the publication "Gun Prohibition in Australia: an expensive mistake". He has been a major contributor and supporter of the Shooters Party and was involved with David Leyonhjelm in the Outdoor Recreation Party's federal campaign in 2004.

He is a qualified electrical engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers and holds an unrestricted private pilot's licence. He is married with three grown children.

Peter is the LDP's Communications Officer. He can be contacted on info@ldp.org.au.

David Leyonhjelm

David has had an interest in politics since the early 1970s when, as a member of Young Labor, he worked on the "It's Time" campaign to help end military conscription.

The following decade he joined the Liberal Party in an effort to promote economic freedom, resigning in 1996 in reaction to John Howard's extremist gun laws.

He joined the Shooters Party in 1992 (while in the Liberal Party), became the party's Chairman in 1999 and managed the successful 2003 campaign that retained the party's NSW Legislative Council seat.

When the Shooters Party was deregistered federally just prior to the federal election in 2004, he used the Outdoor Recreation Party to run a team of shooters for the Senate and marginal NSW seats. The party's Senate preferences helped prevent the Greens from taking the final seat.

David is married and runs his own company in Sydney. A former veterinarian, he also has degrees in business and law.  His sporting interest is target shooting.

David is the LDP's Federal Treasurer and acting Secretary.  He can be contacted on treasurer@ldp.org.au.

David McAlary

President of the ACT Division of the LDP since 2005, David was elected Federal President in 2007.

After completing an Accounting degree in 1992, he worked and travelled before establishing his insurance broking business in 1997.

David is married and lives in the suburbs of Canberra.

Lisa Milat

Lisa is currently a small business owner running a swim training centre for the last 6 years.
She is a member of the Australian Council for the Teaching of Swimming and Water Safety (AUSTSWIM), with responsibilities including training and competency assessment for instructors. She is sports volunteer and an active target shooter and a member of the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (SSAA).

Jon Hoyle

Jonathan was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge where he gained an M.A. in Biochemistry in 1991. He then pursued a fifteen year career in the financial markets as a bond trader, helping medium sized businesses raise debt financing to expand their operations.

In 1999 he moved to New York to trade the sovereign debt of emerging markets and to assist large and medium-sized Asian companies with the difficult task of raising debt financing in the aftermath of the Asian debt crisis.

In 2005, he emigrated from Britain to begin a new life in Sydney with his Australian born wife and two children.

Steve Clancy

Steve was born and raised in Wonthaggi, on Victoria's south-east coast.  He moved to Melbourne in 2000 to attend Swinburne University before leaving study to work in the insurance industry. 

Steve has previously stood as a candidate in both State and Federal elections.   He first stood as a Liberal candidate for the seat of Pascoe Vale in the 2002 Victorian State elections.  This was followed by his Victorian Senate candidacy for liberals for forests in the 2004 Federal election. 

He attended the Centre for Independent Studies' Liberty and Society Program in 2001 and participated in Bureaucrash's Operation Capitalism Heals, Bangkok, 2003.

Steve currently works as a general insurance broker in Melbourne's bayside and attends Melbourne Japanese Christian Church in Canterbury. 

John Humphreys

John established the LDP in 2001 and led the party in two ACT elections (2001 & 2004). He currently holds the position of Federal Vice-President.

He is also the founder of the Australian Libertarian Society.

John has an honours degree in economics and has worked previously as a policy analyst with the Commonwealth Treasury and consultant with the Centre for International Economics. He currently works as a Tutor of political economy at the University of Queensland and manages a small investment company.

He also holds the honorary position of Adjunct Scholar with the Centre for Independent Studies and is the author of several books and articles including "Free Trade Agreements: making them better" (with Andrew Stoeckel) and "Reform 30/30: Rebuilding Australia's Tax and Welfare Systems".

In his spare time John manages a small non-profit organisation in Cambodia helping fund university education for poor students, and has a recreational pilots licence.

Terje Petersen

He runs an IT consultancy in Sydney in partnership with his brother.  Prior to that he held various positions in the telecommunications industry.

He holds an honours degree in Electrical Engineering from UNSW. 

Terje is married with three young children and says that his most formative years were growing up on the family farm on the NSW north coast.

Justin Jefferson

Michael Sutcliffe