Michael John Hatton (born 28 August 1951, Sydney) is a former Australian politician who served as the Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives from June 1996 to October 2007, representing the Division of Blaxland, New South Wales.
From 1985 to 1996, he was an electorate officer for his predecessor as MP for Blaxland, Paul Keating (Prime Minister 1991–1996).
He entered parliament at a by-election necessitated by Keating's resignation from parliament after he lost the 1996 election to John Howard.
Some of Hatton interests included technology and computers where he was a champion of introducing more IT into Australian schools and greater access to Internet; he worked on whitepapers which ultimately convinced Keating to implement the NBN.
[citation needed] Keating was the first person to call on National Broadband Network to be built on fibre optics; and equity and access to internet for disadvantaged.