Bob Brown
Bob Brown
Robert James "Bob" Brownis an Australian former politician, medical doctor, and environmentalist who is a former Senator, and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket, joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election. He was re-elected in 2001 and in 2007. He was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia,...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 December 1944
CountryAustralia
I literally have had hundreds of calls from people ? and these aren't just local residents, but people from all over the place trying to track down a stove that burns corn.
They ran as hard tonight as they did the first meet a week ago. Every individual race that we had two people in, we double-placed in.
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.
Joe is one of those quiet people who leads by example. I know he gets perturbed like a coach sometimes. He expects his teammates to contribute.
I think they had a big influence, not on core Green voters but on the 8 per cent of people polls showed were yet to decide on their vote.
I knew he had the tools but you never know if the kid realizes he has the tools. I really didn't know what to expect.
I'm just taking it one year at a time. I'm enjoying the kids and enjoying the game.
It's strictly 1A schools from here, and I think by the end of the year we can be one of the better 1A schools. We may not have won conference since 1998, but we've won three state championships since then. That's what we're shooting for now.
The big parties sold out on advancing Australia's interests fairly.
The big failure here has been the National Party which has sold out rural and regional Australia today ... to the big end of town.
I have no doubt... (the government) feels it will be less of an affront to China if some other form of visa is offered.
The island has changed a lot since I first came here in the 1970s. There have been a rash of new developments, some sympathetic, some less so. But it has still retained its essential charm.