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Mal Colston
Deputy President of the Senate
In office 20 August 1996 – 6 May 1997
President
Margaret Reid
Preceded by
Margaret Reid
Succeeded by
Sue West
In office 21 August 1990 – 16 August 1993
President
Kerry Sibraa
Preceded by
David Hamer
Succeeded by
Noel Crichton-Browne
Father of the Senate
In office 1 July 1993 – 30 June 1999
Serving with Brian Harradine[a]
Preceded by
Peter Durack
Succeeded by
Brian Harradine
Senator for Queensland
In office 13 December 1975 – 30 June 1999
Personal details
Born
(1938-04-05)5 April 1938 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died
23 August 2003(2003-08-23) (aged 65) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Political party
Queensland First (1996–1999)
Independent (1996)
Labor (1958–1996)
Spouse
Dawn Patricia McMullen
Children
1
Alma mater
University of Queensland
Occupation
Teacher
Politician
Malcolm Arthur Colston (5 April 1938 – 23 August 2003) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the Labor Party until 1996, when he resigned to sit as an independent following a dispute over his candidacy for Deputy President of the Senate. Colston was a schoolteacher before entering politics, and held a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland.
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Malcolm Arthur Colston (5 April 1938 – 23 August 2003) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999. He was a...
His term expired on 30 June 2005. From 1993 to 1999, Harradine and MalColston were joint Fathers of the Senate. Between 1999 and 2005, Harradine held...
Elizabeth Colston. Elizabeth's brother William Edward Colston (1839-1895) was to be great-great-great-grandfather of Queensland senator MalColston. Lockyer...
Queensland ALP Senator Bertie Milliner. The state Labor party nominated MalColston, who was the highest unelected candidate on the party's Queensland list...
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Tambling – Greens (2) – 2 Bob Brown Dee Margetts – Independent (2) 2 MalColston Brian Harradine – – Vacant (2) – – 2 John Panizza (Died 31 January 1997;...
1938 – Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 2018) 1938 – MalColston, Australian educator and politician (d. 2003) 1938 – Nancy Holt, American...
Australia Preceded by Doug McClelland Father of the Australian Senate 1987–1993 with Arthur Gietzelt (1987–1989) Succeeded by MalColston Brian Harradine...
Following the usual practice, the Labor Party nominated only one person, MalColston, to replace Milliner. Country Party Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen asked...
in 1996 after the Howard government was elected, and a Labor senator, MalColston, resigned from the Labor Party. Since the Democrats now shared the parliamentary...
charges against former Senator MalColston after receiving two medical specialists' reports which both state that Mr Colston is too ill to face trial, either...
Chandler-Mather – Class of 2009 – Australian politician and trade unionist MalColston – Class of 1955 – Australian Labor Party senator representing Queensland...
office 6 May 1997 – 30 June 2002 President Margaret Reid Preceded by MalColston Succeeded by John Hogg Senator for New South Wales In office 1 July 1990 –...
Crichton-Browne Western Australia 1995–1996 Expelled from the Liberal Party. MalColston Queensland 1996–1999 Resigned from the Labor Party to accept the Liberal...
political party. On this occasion Labor nominated the unsuccessful candidate MalColston, however the Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen asked for a list...
universities, the ABC, the Australia Council, ATSIC and foreign aid. Senator MalColston defects from the Labor Party to become and Independent. 28 August – As...
to the Country Party Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen - that of MalColston. However, on 3 September, at Bjelke-Petersen's instigation, the Parliament...
Progress candidates Socialist candidates Group C candidates George Georges* MalColston* Verona Wake Kathy Martin* (Lib) Stan Collard* (NCP) David MacGibbon*...
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