![]() In 1956 Mason became the ABC’s first resident foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia. ![]() He worked for a period for the Sydney Morning Herald before joining the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), where he was a radio and television journalist, and documentary producer. ![]() Having studied journalism at the University of New Zealand’s Victoria College, Wellington, he established a career as a journalist, moving to Australia in 1950 and in 1952 marrying Nancy Williamson, with whom he had three children. Mason was re-elected at the 1983 double-dissolution election and again at the 1984 election, in each case for a term of three years.Ĭolin Mason was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 28 October 1926. As the first Australian Democrats elected to the Senate, they signalled the arrival of a new centrist parliamentary party that would go on to become a highly influential minor party in federal politics. ![]() Don Chipp was elected as a senator for Victoria in the same election. Colin Victor James Mason was elected as a senator for New South Wales in the 1977 federal election. ![]()
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