"One too many costs Evans $650 - The Melbourne Magistrates Court was told former Minister for Foreign Affairs Gareth Evans, now chief executive of the International Crisis Group in Brussels, had drunk five or six glasses of wine at a function before being stopped by police at 10.41pm on November 24 last year. Evans, 55, who did not appear yesterday in court, was fined $650 without conviction, but kept his licence, after pleading guilty through a lawyer to exceeding .05."

(Steve Butcher in the AGE.com Wednesday 28 June 2000)