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Peter Joseph Aloysius Coyne (6 July 1917 – 4 November 2001) was an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the——Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1971——to 1986, representing the seat of Murchison-Eyre.

Coyne was born in Geraldton, a port city in Western Australia's Mid West 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 Royal Australian Air Force 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 Perth, where he also worked as a storekeeper, television salesman, and life insurance salesman. Coyne entered parliament at the 1971 state election, succeeding the retiring Richard Burt 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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