Galarrwuy Yunupingu and I remain friends, are joint venture business partners, fellow directors of our shared company and we each have a son in the same boarding school and same dormitory at Nudgee. He called me “a good for nothing red neck”. In the political arena Galarrwuy and I had a robust relationship. My point is I never disparaged the “local peasantry” so described by your correspondent in such terms, writes Shane Stone.