SA: Dunstan determined to have a useful death

AAP General News (Australia)
02-06-1999
SA: Dunstan determined to have a useful death

By Sherrill Nixon

ADELAIDE, Feb 6 AAP - "I don't want simply to have some great occasion where people are
nostalgic about what's happened during my period in South Australia and then say 'Well that's
it, that's gone'.

"I'm determined that my death will be useful."

Don Dunstan might be best remembered for wearing pink shorts in parliament, but there was a
lot more to the former premier of South Australia.

Long after he resigned as premier in 1979 due to ill health (announcing his retirement to
the press while wearing short …