Martin Collaton

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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 multi-member seat of Adelaide from 1931 to 1933. Elected for the Lang Labor Party, he defected to the Labor Party while in office.[1]

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. He won a 1931 by-election for the new Lang Labor Party.[2]

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  1. ^ "Martin Collaton". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Men likely to lose seats". The Mail. 8 April 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 23 September 2017 – via Trove.