Baden Teague

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| title = Senator for South Australia

| term_start = 1 July 1978

| term_end = 30 June 1996

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| birth_place = Adelaide, South Australia

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| party = Liberal

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Baden Chapman Teague (born 18 September 1944){{cite web |url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22handbook%2Fallmps%2FPJ4%22 |title=Biography for TEAGUE, Baden Chapman |author= |date=16 June 2010 |publisher=Parliament of Australia |accessdate=24 January 2010}} is an Australian former politician who served as a Liberal senator for South Australia from 1977 until his retirement in 1996.{{Cite Au Senate |Sen id=teague-baden-chapman |name=Teague, Baden Chapman (1944– ) |first=Carol |last=Fort |year=2017 |access-date=2023-01-19}}

Born in Adelaide, Teague was educated at St. Peter’s College,Thornton, Katharine, "The Message of its Walls & Fields: A History of St Peter's College, 1847-2009", Wakefield Press, 2010. the University of Adelaide and Cambridge University, where he gained a Ph.D.Ozolins, U. (1993), The politics of language in Australia, p. 215, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. {{ISBN|0-521-41794-5}} He was employed as a university lecturer until he entered the Senate in 1977. Teague narrowly won the final South Australian Senate position from the then newly formed Australian Democrats after preferences from the Australia Party flowed to Teague ahead of the Democrats. Observers with a sense of irony would have noted that many Australian Democrats, including lead Democrat Senate candidate Ian Gilfillan, were former Australia Party members and the Democrats had initially expected Australia Party preferences.

During his Senate term, Teague introduced a private members bill to change the system of government in Australia from a Constitutional Monarchy to a Republic.

Following his retirement from politics, Teague served as the South Australian Chairman of the Australian Republican Movement, and was elected as a delegate to the Australian Republic Convention.{{cite web |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |title=Constitutional convention Delegate List |url=http://www.abc.net.au/concon/agenda/delegate.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728071525/http://www.abc.net.au/concon/agenda/delegate.htm |archive-date=28 July 2010 }}