Buckley Machin (21 October 1901 – 20 June 1963) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in

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to coal miner John Machin and Martha Elizabeth Denman. He was a coal miner, and around 1926 married Florence Shaw, with whom he had one son, Peter born in Australia in 1933. He left England after the 1926 general strike and migrated to Australia around 1927, becoming a clerk and insurance agent. From 1939 he worked for Footscray City Council, first as an assistant storeman and cost clerk. From 1953 to 1955 he was the inaugural weights and measures inspector. A Labor Party member, he was elected to the

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for

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in 1955. In 1959 he introduced the first Clean Air Bill into the state parliament. Machin died at

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in 1963.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Machin, Buckley 1901 births 1963 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council British emigrants to Australia 20th-century Australian politicians