John Arthur Abel (25 June 1939 – 19 November 2019) was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he attended

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from 1949 until 1954. Abel was an accountant and company manager before entering politics. In 1975, he was elected to the

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as the

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member for

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, defeating

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. His seat was abolished in a redistribution before the 1977 election, and he unsuccessfully challenged former prime minister

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for preselection in the

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. In 1996 he returned to serve the Parliament as Senior Adviser and then Chief of Staff to the Minister for Roads, Territories and Local Government (Member for Robertson). Affectionately known by many colleagues on the NSW Central Coast as "Sir John". In 2008 Abel retired from politics. In 2009 he moved with his wife and family to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. John Abel died in 2019.

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