Please pardon Stuart Highway

Letter by NAPNT member Gary Meyerhoff to the NT Administrator, Mr Ted Egan AO requesting a pardon for Stuart Highway. Posted snail mail on Monday 05th December 2005. Please send your own version of this letter to:

Mr Ted Egan AO
The Administrator of the NT
GPO Box 497
Darwin NT 0801


Re: Stuart Highway


Dear Sir

I’m writing to you in regard to my friend and comrade Stuart Highway. Stuart was imprisoned on Tuesday 18 October for an offence related to the drug law reform campaign of the Network Against Prohibition.

I have known Stuart for many years, and have found him to be an intelligent and serious man, committed to the struggle to uphold the human rights of those people in our society who have little if any power. He is a dedicated social justice activist and has contributed much to the community.

I am concerned about the harm Stuart could suffer from incarceration. Imprisonment should be used as an absolute last resort, in cases where an individual is violent or dangerous or some kind of serious threat to the community. Stuart does not fall into this category by any means.

He has been under enormous pressure and stress over the last three years, largely because of the tough NT Government response to the ongoing campaign by the Network Against Prohibition. He has already suffered enough and paid the price for whatever transgressions he may have committed.

Stuart poses no danger whatsoever to anybody or anything. His continued incarceration is a burden on taxpayers to no end.

I respectfully ask that you end Stuart’s suffering by pardoning him unconditionally and releasing him from prison forthwith.

Yours Sincerely


Gary Meyerhoff