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Martin Louis Collaton (11 August 1887 – 25 November 1963) was an Australian politician who represented the
South Australian House of Assembly
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multi-member
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seat of
Adelaide
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from 1931 to 1933. Elected for the
Lang Labor Party, he defected to the
Labor Party while in office.
He worked in the iron trade, in wool, wheat and timber yards and in the
Broken Hill mines before becoming state secretary of the
Federated Ironworkers' Association
The Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia (FIA) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1911 and 1991. It represented labourers and semi-skilled workers employed in the steel industry and ironworking, and later also the che ...
. He won a
1931 by-election for the new
Lang Labor Party.
References
1887 births
1963 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia
Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
20th-century Australian politicians
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