John Leslie Stuart MacFarlane (26 March 1919 – 15 January 1986) was an Australian politician. He was the

Country Liberal Party The Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory (CLP) is a centre-right political party in Australia's Northern Territory. In local politics it operates in a two-party system with the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It also contests federal ...

member for Elsey in the

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from 1974 to 1983. He was

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from 1975 to 1984. Before his election to parliament, MacFarlane was chair of the "Rights for Whites Committee", which opposed

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for

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.McLaughlin, M. "How the CLP exploited the Kenbi land claim", ''Land Rights News'', April 2016, p. 27.

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