Mal Colston

Malcolm Arthur Colston was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the Labor Party until 1996, when he resigned to sit as an independent following a dispute over his candidacy for Deputy President of the Senate. Colston was a schoolteacher before entering politics, and held a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland. ^{Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician (d. 2003)}

5 April 1938

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1938): Colin Bland • Giorgos Sideris • Nancy Holt • Natalya Kustinskaya

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Alexey Volkov (biathlete) • Bernard Longley • Ernest Mandel • Fernando Morientes • Franziska van Almsick • Fredy Hinestroza • Henrik Dettmann • Jean-Honoré Fragonard • Kisho Yano • Kristof Vandewalle • Laura Feiersinger • Luis de Agustini • Rachel Homan • Ryoichi Kawakatsu • Simone Inzaghi • Svetlana Paramygina • Valérie Bonneton

Born in the same month (April 1938): Alain Caron (ice hockey) • Bart Giamatti • Ben Barnes (Texas politician) • Gani Fawehinmi • Gary Collins (actor) • Giorgos Sideris • Issey Miyake • Juraj Jakubisko • Klaus Lehnertz • Mahmud Esad Coşan • Mary W. Gray • Nancy Holt • Phil Rodgers • Rich Rollins • Roger Boisjoly • Roy Thinnes