Gerard Marshall Vaughan (born 1 December 1946) is a former Australian politician. He was born in

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in 1966. He worked as a chemical engineer with Australian Portland Cement Ltd. from 1967 to 1968, when he received a

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(Honours) from

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, followed by a Master of Engineering Science in 1971. He received a

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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

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in 1975. From 1977 to 1979 he was a research scientist with

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's Mineral Engineering Division. A Labor Party member since 1971, he ran unsuccessfully for the

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seat of Glenhuntly in 1976 but won the seat in 1979. 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

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in 1996.

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