13 Facts About Shane Stone

Shane Stone is a member and former leader of the Country Liberal Party, and was the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory between May 1995 and February 1999.

Since October 2023, Stone is the president of the party.

Shane Stone served as the Chair of the Council for the Order of Australia from 2018 to 2023.

Shane Stone was the Coordinator-General of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency and its predecessors until August 2022.

Shane Stone was the federal president of the Liberal Party of Australia between July 1999 and 2005.

In late 1997 Shane Stone attracted sustained criticism when as the First Law Officer being the Attorney-General he appointed himself a Queen's Counsel.

Shane Stone was the Chief Minister during the referendum for statehood for the Northern Territory in 1998.

Shane Stone is the Executive Chairman of the APAC Group of Companies.

Shane Stone was the National Chairman of the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award - Australia from 2012 to 2018.

In 2018, Shane Stone was appointed chair of the Council for the Order of Australia.

In December 2019, North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency was expanded to include drought and renamed into a new National Drought and North Queensland Flood Response and Recovery Agency, with Shane Stone appointed the Coordinator-General of the new agency.

The agency was further subsumed into the National Recovery and Resilience Agency on 5 May 2021 and Shane Stone continued to be the Coordinator-General of the new agency.

Shane Stone was criticised by the opposition Labor Party for being "insensitive to those who had lost properties and livelihoods" and should be sacked for "victim blaming".