29 March 1999
Correspondence from the Labor Member for Holt, former Federal Attorney General and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Gareth Evens QC MP, following the retirement of Shane Stone as Chief Minister of Australia's Northern Territory. Extract: ''I have had occasion to remark, politics is a bloody and dangerous trade – an abattoir, in fact – and I guess it is only a matter of time before each one of us suffers that experience''. Shane Stone's letter in reply dated 7 April is very open and detailed.