What is Shane Stone?
[[File:Shane Stone (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Stone in 2018]] '''Shane Leslie Stone''' {{postnominals|country=AUS|AC|QC}} (born 25 September 1950) is an [[Australia]]n politician. He is a member of the [[Country Liberal Party]]. He was first elected to office as a member of the [[Northern Territory Legislative Assembly]] for [[Electoral division of Port Darwin|Port Darwin]] in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://parliament.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/389403/MEMBERS-OF-THE-1st-13TH-ASSEMBLY.pdf|title=Members of the Legislative Assembly 1974–2016|publisher=[[Parliament of the Northern Territory]]|access-date=2 March 2020|archive-date=26 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226152353/https://parliament.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/389403/MEMBERS-OF-THE-1st-13TH-ASSEMBLY.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He then served as [[Chief Minister of the Northern Territory]] from 1995 to 1999. He became the federal president of the [[Liberal Party of Australia]] in 1999. He served in this role until 2005. The [[Malaysia]]n state of [[Sabah]] made Stone a [[Order of Kinabalu|Commander of the Order of Kinabalu]] in 1998. Stone was born in [[Bendigo, Victoria]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Shane}} [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory]] [[Category:Liberal Party of Australia politicians]] [[Category:Politicians from Darwin, Northern Territory]] [[Category:Politicians from Victoria (Australia)]] [[Category:Order of Australia]] {{Bio-stub}}