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Stone twice served as Attorney General, and was the minister for
Stone was Chief Minister during the Referendum for statehood for the Northern Territory in 1998 . Electors were asked to vote on whether the Northern Territory should become a state with a constitution that had been approved by a Constitutional Assembly. A bipartisan committee of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly had recommended a constitution and that it should be further considered by an elected Constitutional Assembly. Stone put forward a different constitution to a non-elected Constitutional Assembly. The referendum failed, although opinion polls continue to show that the population of the Northern Territory supports statehood. In 1999 he became the federal President of the Liberal Party Of Australia . In 2001 he released a memo which was leaked to the press, in which he claimed that the government of John Howard was seen as "mean and tricky" 1, which caused a stir in Australian politics at the time. The Liberal Party Of Australia was subsequently re-elected at the 2004 Federal Election . Stone is also the Executive Chairman of the APAC Group of Companies2. REFERENCES |
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