Colin Mason, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Colin Mason

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1926

Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand

Profession: writer, politician, journalist

Nationality: Australia, New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Colin Mason

  • Colin Victor James Mason (born 28 October 1926) is a New Zealand-born Australian journalist, author and former politician. Mason worked for 14 years as the first foreign correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and became deeply involved in Asian affairs.
  • In 1968, he wrote Dragon Army, a popular history of Asian communism.He joined the Australia Party and rose to become its national convener (1976).
  • He joined the Australian Democrats and was elected to the Senate at the 1977 election as a senator for New South Wales.
  • He and Don Chipp (Victoria) were the first two Australian Democrats elected to the Senate, although Janine Haines (South Australia) had earlier been appointed to a casual vacancy. He was re-elected at the 1983 double-dissolution election for a three-year term, and again at the 1984 election for a three-year term ending on 30 June 1988.
  • He retired in 1987 when another double-dissolution election was called. He later wrote A Short History of Asia (2000), concerning imperialism and the modern history of many individual countries in Asia. In 2003, Mason released The 2030 Spike: Countdown to Global Catastrophe, in which he describes a confluence of six 'drivers' that he argues will converge in the decade of 2030: depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness.
  • He describes more than 100 steps to be taken to mitigate this convergence, including a form of world government.
  • In 2006 he released a revised edition, A Short History Of The Future: Surviving the 2030 Spike A copy of The 2030 Spike was found among 39 English-language books in the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed.

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