| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Peter Staples | |
| Office: | Minister for Aged, Family and Health Services |
| Term Start: | 7 May 1990 |
| Term End: | 24 March 1993 |
| Primeminister: | Bob Hawke Paul Keating |
| Predecessor: | Himself (as Minister for Housing and Aged Care) |
| Successor: | Position abolished |
| Constituency Mp1: | Diamond Valley |
| Parliament1: | Australian |
| Predecessor1: | Neil Brown |
| Successor1: | Division abolished |
| Term Start1: | 5 March 1983 |
| Term End1: | 1 December 1984 |
| Constituency Mp2: | Jagajaga |
| Parliament2: | Australian |
| Term Start2: | 1 December 1984 |
| Term End2: | 29 January 1996 |
| Predecessor2: | New seat |
| Successor2: | Jenny Macklin |
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Melbourne |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Party: | Labor |
Peter Staples (born 15 October 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former politician for the Australian Labor Party. He was first elected to Parliament in 1983 as the Member for Diamond Valley. When Diamond Valley was abolished in 1984, Staples transferred to the newly created Jagajaga, essentially the western half of his old electorate. In 1987, he was appointed Consumer Affairs Minister by Prime Minister Bob Hawke in his third ministry. Staples would remain a junior minister for nearly six years, serving as Minister for Housing and Aged Care and later Aged, Family and Health Services in the Hawke and Keating Ministries.[1]
Staples lost his spot in the ministry to Frank Walker after the party's victory at the 1993 election. He spent the remainder of his career on the backbench until his retirement from politics in 1996, as stated in his documentary, The Dance of a Thousand Summers.[2]