Between 19 Mason was the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization civilian advisor to the Thai Government on radio and television programming. Indigenous nationalist movements had forced the withdrawal of European colonial rule in countries such as the Philippines, Burma, Indonesia, Indochina and Malaya, communism was gaining a foothold in parts of Asia, and Australian troops were deployed to various countries across Southeast Asia. Mason’s time in Southeast Asia coincided with a period of enormous change for the region, and saw him travelling in troubled and remote areas. In 1956 Mason became the ABC’s first resident foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia. He worked for a period for the Sydney Morning Herald before joining the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), where he was a radio and television journalist, and documentary producer. Having studied journalism at the University of New Zealand’s Victoria College, Wellington, he established a career as a journalist, moving to Australia in 1950 and in 1952 marrying Nancy Williamson, with whom he had three children. Mason was re-elected at the 1983 double-dissolution election and again at the 1984 election, in each case for a term of three years.Ĭolin Mason was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 28 October 1926. As the first Australian Democrats elected to the Senate, they signalled the arrival of a new centrist parliamentary party that would go on to become a highly influential minor party in federal politics. Don Chipp was elected as a senator for Victoria in the same election.
Colin Victor James Mason was elected as a senator for New South Wales in the 1977 federal election.
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