Colin Hughes

Colin Anfield Hughes (4 May 1930 – 30 June 2017 ) was a British-Australian academic specialising in electoral politics and government. He was emeritus professor of political science at the University of Queensland and chairman of the Queensland Constitutional Review Commission (1999–2000).

Hughes was born in The Bahamas, where his Welsh father, John Anfield Hughes, was a school administrator, and later district commissioner of several Bahamian islands. During World War II, he moved to the United States, where he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University and his PhD from the London School of Economics. In 1966, along with John S. Western, Hughes published a study of Australia's first ever televised policy speech on 12 November 1963, by then prime minister Sir Robert Menzies. At this time, Hughes was a Fellow in Political Science at the Australian National University. At time of the 1966 publication, he was a Professor of Political Science and Western Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Queensland.

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