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Born in South Yarra to brickmaker George Alfred Hughes and Eliza Smartt, Hughes attended Brighton State School and then the College of the Bible in Glen Iris.
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On his return Hughes became a probation officer with the Children"s Courts. In the 1930s he was president of the Victorian Christian Endeavour Union. In November 1941 he was elected chaplain to the Melbourne Boys" Club Association.
In 1946 he was president of Opportunity Clubs for Boys and Girls, and of the Australia-India Association.
On 12 June 1943, he was elected to the seat of Caulfield in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as an Independent, serving until his defeat in 1945. He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1946 and was preselected to contest the federal seat of Flinders in 1949, but the state executive refused to endorse his candidature and expelled him after he stood as an Independent Labor candidate.
He was readmitted to the ALP in 1955 and contested the federal seat of Higgins, a conservative seat held by the government minister, and future prime minister, Harold Holt. He moved to Japan in 1957 to teach and worked for Japan Council against A & H Bombs from 1958, becoming highly active in the Japanese anti-war movement.
Rowland McDonald Morris 4 November 1927-1925 November 1927, Ian Morris 9 December 1928, Elwynne Morris 12 February 1932, Gwynneth Margaret Morris 18 April 1936, Linley McDonald Morris 21 September 1943.
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Political Party
Australian Labor Party