Letter from Sir Roger Carrick KCMG LVO
30 August 1997
Hand written personal note from the British High Commissioner Sir Roger Carrick KCMG LVO holidaying in the Northern Territory in the last week of the General election campaign. Extensive mail, fax and telephone messages were received from throughout the Territory and from Australia wide following the resounding election victory that saw the return of the Stone CLP Government. A small selection of the correspondence has been included in the archives. See also Archive Documents 'General Election 1997 analysis' (which represented a high water mark for the CLP with a 54.7% primary vote and a record turn out). Sir Roger wrote, the day after the election while still in the NT Extract: ''I have asked questions around the NT, I have concluded that a good deal of the CLP vote, by no means only in Darwin, is a personal vote. In Mataranka this evening, a splendid lady who keeps a shop-cum-visitors centre...told us in some depth, without knowing who we were, how important it was that you, as distinct from the CLP, should win. And a chap holding up the local bar lectured us with some passion about you: 'he creates work, mate' ''. Chief Minister Stone ran a very active sponsored visitation program for Heads of Mission (Ambassadors and High Commissioners) promoting the Territory's profile and so encourage investment and tourism. He also actively encouraged the appointment of honorary consuls.
- Document type: Correspondence
- Time period: Legislative Assembly NT
- People: Roger CARRICK, Hillary CARRICK, Sherry MEAKIN
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