Peter grew up in the Aboriginal Mission at La Perouse and worked as a diesel mechanic and TAFE teacher before starting his award winning company Koori Communications and Training in 2005 which focused on running programs in Sydney as well as a Catch N Cook fishing program to reconnect Aboriginal children to fishing and the ocean up and down the coast of NSW learning important sustainability and cultural skills along the way.

He is CEO of First Hand Solutions Aboriginal Corporation which provides cultural reconnection and well-being programs for Indigenous youth at-risk and co-founder of the Social Enterprise the Blak Markets which assists up to 40 small indigenous businesses through the markets as well as facilitating cultural exchange between elders and disenfranchised youth that badly need this knowledge.