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), commonly known as the Country Liberals, is a centre-right and conservative political party in Australia's Northern Territory. In territory politics, it operates in a two-party system wi ...

member for Elsey in the

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from 1974 to 1983. He was Speaker from 1975 to 1984. Before his election to parliament, MacFarlane was chair of the "Rights for Whites Committee", which opposed

land rights Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land. In many jurisdictions, these kinds of property are referred to as real estate or real property, as distinct from personal property. Land use ...

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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