Gerard Vaughan (Australian politician)
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Gerard Marshall Vaughan (born 1 December 1946) is an Australian politician.
Biography
[edit]Vaughan was born on 1 December 1946, in Glen Huntly, to David Arthur Vaughan and Mary Therese (née Russell).[1] He attended state and Catholic schools and received an Associate Diploma of Chemical Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1966. He worked as a chemical engineer with Australian Portland Cement Ltd. from 1967 to 1968, when he received a Bachelor of Education (Honours) from Monash University, followed by a Master of Engineering Science in 1971. He received a Diploma of Education from the State College of Victoria in 1973 and a PhD from Monash University in 1978. From 1968 to 1972, he was a research student and tutor in Monash University's Chemical Engineering Department, becoming a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology in 1975. From 1977 to 1979, he was a research scientist with CSIRO's Mineral Engineering Division.[1]
A Labor Party member since 1971, Vaughan ran unsuccessfully for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Glenhuntly in 1976 but won the seat in 1979.[2] He transferred to Clayton in 1985 following Glenhuntly's abolition. He served on a number of committees but was never promoted from the backbench, and he lost preselection to Hong Lim in 1996.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Vaughan, Gerard Marshall at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 March 2011)
- ^ "Gerard Marshall Vaughan". Members of Parliament. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
- Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
- RMIT University alumni
- Australian chemical engineers
- Monash University alumni
- People from Glen Huntly, Victoria
- Politicians from Melbourne
- Scientists from Melbourne
- CSIRO people
- 20th-century Australian scientists
- 20th-century Australian politicians