Robert James Brown Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Robert James "Bob" Brown (born 27 December 1944) is an Australian former politician, medical doctor, environmentalist, 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, and the first openly gay leader of an Australian political party.While serving in the Tasmanian parliament, Brown successfully campaigned for a large increase in the protected wilderness areas. Brown led the Australian Greens from the party's foundation in 1992 until April 2012, a period in which polls grew to around 10% at state and federal levels (13.9% of the primary vote in 2010). From 2002 to 2004, when minor parties held the balance of power in the Senate, Brown became a well-recognised politician. In October 2003 Brown was the subject of international media interest when he was suspended from the parliament for interjecting during an address by United States president George W. Bush.On 13 April 2012, Brown resigned as leader of the Greens and indicated his intention to resign from the Senate in June. This occurred on 15 June 2012.
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
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I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
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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.
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I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.
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I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
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Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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I am an optimist.
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I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
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There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens (28 November 2005 - 13 April 2012).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Neighbours
1990-1994
TV Series
Vince Roland / Mr. Boyer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
On the Brink
2003
Short thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Q&A
2008-2012
TV Series
Himself - Panelist
Meet the Press
2012
TV Series
Himself - Leader Australian Greens
The 7PM Project
2009-2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself - Leader of the Australian Greens / Himself / ...
Dick Smith's Population Puzzle
2010
Documentary
Himself (leader of The Greens)
Good News Week
2009
TV Series
Himself
Corridors of Power
2001
TV Series
Himself
Lake Pedder
1997
Documentary short
Himself
The Franklin: Wild River
1980
Himself
Known for movies
Dick Smith's Population Puzzle (2010) as Himself (leader of The Greens)
The Franklin: Wild River (1980) as Himself
Lake Pedder (1997) as Himself
Neighbours (1990-1994) as Vince Roland / Mr. Boyer
$800,000
