Roger Steele

Roger Michael Steele OAM (born 29 May 1939) is a former Australian politician.

He was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1974 to 1987, representing Ludmilla until 1983 and Elsey thereafter.

[4] Elsey was abolished ahead of the 1987 election, and Steele nominated for CLP preselection to contest Katherine, essentially the urbanised portion of his old seat.

The Opposition Leader, Terry Smith, publicly suggested that Steele had only renominated because this would increase his superannuation.

He was one of three incumbent MLAs at that election to be denied preselection by the party's central council; while Noel Padgham-Purich and Denis Collins were re-elected as independents, Steele retired and publicly campaigned for his endorsed successor, Mike Reed.