Hugh Hudson (politician)

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| birth_name = Hugh Hudson

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| image = HughHudsonMP.jpg

| office = Deputy Premier of South Australia

| predecessor = Des Corcoran

| successor = Roger Goldsworthy

| premier = Des Corcoran

| term_start = 15 March 1979

| term_end = 18 September 1979

|office1 = Deputy Leader of the South Australian
Labor Party

|term_start1 = 15 March 1979

|term_end1 = 2 October 1979

|predecessor1 = Des Corcoran

|successor1 = Jack Wright

|leader1 = Des Corcoran

| office2 = Minister of Education

| premier2 = Don Dunstan

| predecessor2 = John Coumbe

| successor2 = Don Hopgood

| term_start2 = 6 June 1970

| term_end2 = 24 June 1975

| office3 = Minister for Planning and Housing

| premier3 = Don Dunstan

| predecessor3 = Joyce Steele

| successor3 = David Wotton

| term_start3 = 17 October 1975

| term_end3 = 15 March 1979

| premier4 = Don Dunstan

| predecessor4 = Frank Walsh

| successor4 = Glen Pearson

| term_start4 = 26 March 1968

| term_end4 = 16 April 1968

| office5 = Member for Brighton

| predecessor5 = district created

| successor5 = Dick Glazbrook

| term_start5 = 30 May 1970

| term_end5 = 14 September 1979

| office6 = Member for Glenelg

| predecessor6 = Baden Pattinson

| successor6 = John Mathwin

| term_start6 = 6 March 1965

| term_end6 = 29 May 1970

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1930|12|12}}

| birth_place = Croydon, South Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1993|5|11|1930|12|12}}

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| party =Labor

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Hugh Richard Hudson (12 December 1930 – 11 May 1993) was an Australian politician and 2nd Deputy Premier of South Australia in 1979. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and was a school teacher before entering politics.Australian Dictionary of Biography Hudson represented the House of Assembly seats of Glenelg from 1965 to 1970 and Brighton from 1970 to 1979 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party.{{cite SA-parl |pid=3837 |name=Hugh Hudson |former=yes |access-date=19 August 2022}} He held several ministries during his career, including being Minister of Education (1970–1975) during which time he was asked to deliver the 1976 Buntine Oration, which he titled "The Political Economy of Educational Advancement."{{Cite web|url = http://www.austcolled.com.au/documents/item/41|title = The Buntine Oration: A Short History|publisher = Australian College of Educators|year = 2004|access-date = 17 June 2016|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170118041209/http://www.austcolled.com.au/documents/item/41|archivedate = 18 January 2017|df = dmy-all}}