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
That's the kind of style of runner Joe is. He is the epitome of the fullback in the I-formation.
That's the kind of style of runner Joe is, ... He is the epitome of the fullback in the I-formation.
We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.
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.
I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.
We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth's largesse. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age.
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.