Alan Gordon Corbett (born 6 April 1954) is a former

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n politician. Originally a teacher, he was the founder of A Better Future for Our Children, a New South Wales political party. In 1995, he was elected to the

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for that party despite receiving only 1.24% of the vote. He served until his retirement in 2003. Corbett has one son. The party did not contest the state election of that year. His wife died in 2017 at the age of 51 after suffering from a long illness.

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