February 1968.  "Moved to Mt Isa and worked for one year as a percussion driller and underground diamond driller with Mt Isa Mines, until February 1969"
October 1968.   "Passed the flight test for the commercial pilot licence - a first in Mt Isa."

"I am one of the best Australians you ever had and I will not be afraid to say this to any one of your colleague MPs :- I know your country more than you do.  I walked all over it as a prospector, I worked underneath as a miner and worked above it as a commercial pilot.  Further, I loved it certainly as much as any one of you do.  I did not hesitate to put my life in the balance for it.  It broke my heart to leave it, but because of your lack of respect to the Promise made, I will never go back."

In friendship, too,
Kind regards.
JPT.
30th March, 1998.

Letter to Julian Grill MLA (Member for Eyre)
Shadow Minister for Resources and Development.