{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} thumb|A. A. Austin. '''Austin Albert Austin''' (23 November 1855 – 29 July 1925) was an Australian politician. ==Biography== Austin was born in Winchelsea to pioneer grazier Thomas Austin and Elizabeth Phillips Harding.<ref name=adb>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=P. L. |last=Brown |title=Austin Albert Austin (1855–1925) |id2=austin-austin-albert-5599 |year=1979 |volume=7 |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref> He came from a political family: his brother Edwin Henry Austin, cousin Sidney Austin, nephew Edward Arthur Austin and grandson Thomas Leslie Austin were all members of the Victorian Parliament.<ref name=vic>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403075334/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=875 |title=Austin, Austin Albert |date=3 April 2012}}</ref> He attended Geelong Grammar School and the University of Melbourne before becoming a grazier, mostly around Elaine. On 29 August 1892 he married Winifred Cameron, with whom he had five children.
He served on Meredith Shire Council from 1892 to 1893 and Buninyong Shire Council from 1908 to 1911.<ref name=vic/> In 1902 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Grenville, serving until 1904.<ref name=parl>{{Cite Parliament of Victoria Member Profile |name=Austin Albert Austin |id=austin-austin |access-date=13 August 2025}}</ref> In 1910 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for South Western Province. He was a Liberal and a Nationalist, and served until his retirement in 1925. Austin died a few months after his retirement in Geelong.<ref name=parl/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-vic-la}} {{s-bef|before=James Sadler}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Grenville | years=1902–1904 | alongside=David Kerr}} {{s-aft|after=Charles McGrath}} {{s-par|au-vic-lc}} {{s-bef|before=Sir Henry Wrixon}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for South Western | years=1910–1925 | alongside=<br>Thomas Harwood; Horace Richardson}} {{s-aft|after=Howard Hitchcock}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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