Editing Peter Garrett (section)

==Early life==
Born on 16 April 1953, in [[Wahroonga]], [[Sydney]],<ref name="aph.gov.au"/> Garrett was the eldest of three siblings. He suffered from severe asthma as a child. He attended Gordon West Public School and then [[Barker College]] in Hornsby before studying politics at the [[Australian National University]] (ANU), where he was a resident at [[Burgmann College]], and later law at the [[University of New South Wales]].

His father died from an asthma attack while Peter was in his teens, and his mother died in a fire at the family home when he was in his early twenties. Peter managed to escape the fire, but his mother was asleep upstairs and he was unable to rescue her.<ref name="SMH-110604">{{cite news |title=The personal price of a political choice |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/11/1086749898019.html |access-date=30 May 2016 |first=Stephanie |last=Peatling |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=12 June 2004 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094902/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/11/1086749898019.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://news.anu.edu.au/?p=1283 |title=Awards |website=[[Australian National University|ANU]] |date=3 June 2009 |access-date=5 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914185136/http://news.anu.edu.au/?p=1283 |archive-date=14 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/yes-i-was-a-teenage-stoner-says-candid-minchin/2007/07/12/1183833608112.html |title=Yes, I was a teenage stoner, says candid Minchin |date=12 July 2007 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=17 November 2012 |archive-date=6 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606103705/http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/yes-i-was-a-teenage-stoner-says-candid-minchin/2007/07/12/1183833608112.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grs.unsw.edu.au/futurestudents/aboutunsw.html |title=About UNSW & Sydney |website=[[UNSW]] |access-date=5 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914124032/http://www.grs.unsw.edu.au/futurestudents/aboutunsw.html |archive-date=14 September 2009}}</ref>