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.{{cite SA-parl |pid=3614 |name=Martin Collaton |former=yes |access-date=19 August 2022}}

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.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59385163 |title=Men likely to lose seats |newspaper=The Mail |date=8 April 1933 |access-date=23 September 2017 |page=2 |via=Trove}}