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Gerard Marshall Vaughan (born 1 December 1946) is an Australian politician.
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Gerard Marshall Vaughan (born 1 December 1946) is an Australian politician.
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]