I read recently that one should never hold a grudge. This is excellent advice, but for me, there are three exceptions. They were, or are, all politicians who thwarted the Marshall Perron Right to Die Legislation passed by the NT Assembly in 1996.

One of them, Kevin Andrews, has passed away. The second is Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke. They were the mover and seconder of the private members’ bill, which was passed in the Federal Parliament to rescind and void the Marshall Perron legislation.

The third unforgivable is the then Prime Minister John Howard who persuaded the recission bill through the agency of this pair, overruling the NT because we were only a territory.

Fast forward three decades, and appreciate the dreadful situation in which these three ‘visionaries’ have landed us—still no VAD in the NT.

For me, they can never be forgiven