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A Better Future For Our Children was a New South Wales political party. It contested the 1995 state election, at which it won a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council despite receiving only 1.24% of the vote. The party's leader, Alan Corbett, was elected due to preference flows from other parties. Corbett retired in 2003, and the party did not contest the state election of that year. [1]

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References

  1. Smith, Rodney (2006). Against the Machines: Minor Parties and Independents in New South Wales 1910-2006. The Federation Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN   978-1-86287-623-1.