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'Colin Victor James Mason' is an Australian journalist, author and politician who was elected to the Australian Senate at the 1977 election as a senator for New South Wales, joining with Don Chipp (Victoria) in the first accession of the Australian Democrats to the Senate. He had formerly (1976) been the national convener of the Australia Party
He was relected 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^[1], though retiring in 1987 when another double-dissolution election was called.
Born in 1926 in New Zealand, Mason worked for 14 years with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and became deeply involved in Asian affairs. In 1968, he wrote ''Dragon Army'', a popular history of Asian communism.^[2]

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1. Record of NSW count, 1984, Psephos
2. Hewat T and Wilson D ''Don Chipp'' Visa, Victoria (1978), p. 102.