Ronald Graham Henry McAlister (20 September 1922 – 21 April 1996) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to labourer Graham Maxwell McAlister and Louise Violet Robinson. He worked as a mechanical engineer, and served in the

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from 1939 to 1945. He was the principal consultant of an engineering firm, as well as a Labor Party member who served on the state administrative committee from 1971 to 1974. He was a

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councillor from 1965 to 1968. In 1975 he was elected to the

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in a by-election for

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; however, the seat was abolished prior to the 1976 state election, and McAlister contested preselection for Glenroy unsuccessfully. From 1976 ill health saw him in semi-retirement. He died in 1996.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McAlister, Ron 1922 births 1996 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II