[3] From 1957 to 1959, George Gahan was the president of the Prahran-South Yarra branch of the Helping Hand League of Victoria; now known as Inclusion Melbourne.

Determined to fight for a seat on the City of Prahran council to improve its service to the people of the area, George Gahan became the Labor Party candidate for the South Yarra Ward in 1954.

But one morning when I was walking to the railway station along Osborne Street on my way to work, I noticed a Holden utility advertising a chap named George Gahan as the Labor candidate for the South Yarra ward in the forthcoming elections.

[9] On May Day 1961 George Gahan declared: "The hour is right for a dramatic rise of the Labor Party ready and willing to work for a new deal for workers".

Gahan campaigned in Prahran against the conservative Victorian government of Sir Henry Bolte and their record on housing and unemployment.

[10]George Gahan was not only concerned for the workers and unemployed, he actively campaigned for the many pensioners of Prahran, who he argued were facing rising rents and were increasingly being evicted from their homes.

[10] According to Gahan, "Some businessmen gave money to the Bolte government to enable it to assist they payment of pensioners rents and help it bluff its way through the elections".

[14] As the Premier began to address and audience of 500 citizens gathered at Prahran Town Hall, the meeting descended into chaos and speakers' voices were drowned out by continuous heckling.

[14] As Premier Bolte attempted to deliver his speech over the noise of hecklers, the public address system and national radio broadcast broke down.

[14] As scuffles and arguments broke out at the public gathering, four policemen intervened with one man being escorted from the Prahran Town Hall by police.

On the day of the Victorian state election in 1961 how-to-vote cards baring the words Vote with the L.C.P and printed in the Liberal and Country Party colours of red, white and blue were distributed at polling booths in the seat of Prahran.

[8] The card also bore the words: Authorised by E. M. Bennett, 415 Malvern Road, Prahran, President of Ladies' Campaign Panel of Ratepayers' Association.

After an hour and a quarter of voting a female voter at Prahran town hall made a complaint about the misleading how-to-vote cards.

[8] In an unprecedented move in Victorian electoral history, Justice Adam issued a court injunction restraining Mrs Bennett from publishing the misleading how-to-vote cards and ordered police to stop anyone distributing them.

[2] In 1952, at 42 years of age, he competed in his last tournament, losing to Australian champion and British Empire Games silver medallist Bill Seewitz.