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

Biography

Vaughan was born on 1 December 1946, in

Glen Huntly Glen Huntly is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District,née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Russell). He attended state and Catholic schools and received an Associate Diploma of Chemical Engineering from the

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

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

Bachelor of Education A Bachelor of Education (B.Ed. or BEd) is an undergraduate academic degree which prepares students for work as a teacher in schools. A Bachelor of Education program typically lasts three to four years and combines both coursework and practical exp ...

(Honours) from

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

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

Diploma of Education The Diploma of Education, often abbreviated to DipEd or GradDipEd, is a postgraduate qualification offered in many Commonwealth countries including Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Overview The diploma can build on th ...

from the State College of Victoria in 1973 and a

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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 The Swinburne University of Technology (or simply Swinburne) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College established in 1908, renamed Swinburne ...

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

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

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

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ...

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 Hong Lim in 1996.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughan, Gerard 1946 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly RMIT University alumni Australian chemical engineers Monash University alumni People from Glen Huntly, Victoria Politicians from Melbourne Scientists from Melbourne CSIRO people 20th-century Australian scientists 20th-century Australian politicians