can you tell me about bob brown and what he has done good to contribute to Australia?
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Robert James Brown (born 27 December 1944), is an Australian Senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and the first openly homosexual member of the Parliament of Australia. He created international headlines on 23 October 2003 when he was suspended from the Parliament for breaking with protocol and interjecting during an address by the visiting President of the United States, George W. Bush. Brown's Senate colleague, Kerry Nettle, was also suspended.\n\nBob Brown was born in Oberon, New South Wales and attended Trunkey Public School and Blacktown Boys High School, and in his senior year he was elected school captain. After graduating from high school he enrolled in medicine at Sydney University. He moved to Tasmania in 1972 and worked as a general medical practitioner in Launceston. He soon became involved in the state's environmentalist movement, in particular the campaign to save Lake Pedder, and was a member of the United Tasmania Group in 1972, Australia's first "green" party. In a newspaper interview at this time, Brown announced he was gay.\n\nIn 1978 Brown was appointed director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. In the early 1980s he emerged as a leader of the campaign to prevent construction of the Franklin Dam, which would have drowned the Franklin River valley as part of a hydroelectricity project. Brown was among the 1500 people arrested while protesting during this campaign. He subsequently spent 19 days in Hobart's Risdon Prison. On the day of his release in 1983, Brown was elected into Tasmania's Parliament. The Franklin campaign was a success after Federal government intervention protected the Franklin River in 1983.\n\nDuring his first term of office, Brown introduced a wide range of private member's initiatives, including for Freedom of Information, Death with Dignity, lowering parliamentary salaries, gay law reform, banning the battery-hen industry and nuclear free Tasmania. His 1987 bill to ban semi-automatic guns was voted down by both Liberal and Labor members of Tasmania's House of Assembly, seven years before the Port Arthur Massacre[1] resulted in a successful Federal Liberal bid to achieve the same results.\n\nIn 1989 Tasmania's system of proportional representation allowed the Greens to win five out of 35 seats in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, and Brown became their unofficial leader (at that time, the Greens did not have formal leadership positions). He agreed to support a minority Labor Party government, but this agreement broke down over forestry issues in 1992. In 1993 Brown resigned from the House of Assembly and stood unsuccessfully for the federal House of Representatives.\n\nBrown was elected to the Australian Senate for Tasmania in 1996, and was an outspoken voice in opposition to the conservative government of John Howard, and in support of green and human rights issues, including international issues such as Tibet, East Timor and West Papua. He also introduced bills for constitutional reform, forest protection, to block radioactive waste dumping, to ban mandatory sentencing of aboriginal children and for greenhouse abatement.\n\nAt the 2001 federal election Brown was re-elected to the Senate with a greatly increased vote, and was outspoken on Prime Minister John Howard's refusal to allow 450 asylum seekers (mostly from Afghanistan) to land on Christmas Island after they had been rescued from their sinking boat in the Indian Ocean by the MV Tampa, a Norwegian freighter. Brown was equally critical of Opposition Leader Kim Beazley's acquiescence to John Howard's stance on the Tampa incident[2].\n\nBrown was particularly vocal in his opposition to Australian participation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and became recognised as a leading voice for the anti-war/peace movement.\n\nDespite his rather dour and humourless public manner, he is widely admired as a man of courage and conviction, even by those who disag
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Look at Bruce Dawe's poetry.  See the poem 'Lifecycle'.  He  writes a lot about the religion in Victoria that is the Australian Football League.
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this has some info about him . Most of it is stats though\nRod Brown-Don't Cry for Me-NSW\n\n http://www.efanational.com/default.asp?MenuID=Sports/11757/0,Jumping/11734/375
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I think Anthony Mundine's a legend! So glad he won. His cheeky confidence is a good thing, just like it was with Muhammed Ali. His father is right about the racism - a lot of white Aussies just seemed to go for Green because he was the white guy. Green handled the defeat like a real man though - respect!
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I think they're great. Firstly, Australia have been doing well at them so there is the nationalistic issue.\n\nSecondly, we see athletes doing their best to compete for their country. The other day We saw an athlete from Papua New Guines win a gold medal, probably the first in the history of that country. I live events like the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics.
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Not sure if you are suggesting the pope and Billy Graeme know something they are not telling :-)\n\nI feel another Dan Brown book coming on!
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there was a rumor that rob is touring Australia in DEC 2006. now the rumor said that at this present moment it was just Adelaide, cos he bypassed them on the last tour. but I'm pretty sure that he will got to Syd and Melb in 2006! rock on Robbie xoxox
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What to improve?\n\nAustralia's fine as it is.\n\nWhich other country can you think of... that CONSISTENTLY turns out WORLDCLASS\nswimmers,\ntennis-players,\ngolfers,\nF1 drivers,\nMotoGP riders,\nhocket players,\nathletes et al...\n\nwith just a population of 20 million\nand a 100% literacy rate...\n\nin a FREE country that has the highest regards for democratic principles...\n\nand drinks beer like no one else on earth drinks... lol
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Brian, why not come to Australia? We desperately need health care workers. We have a free dental system for welfare recipients and rural areas are sadly lacking dentists. Take a trip down under, we don't bite!
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He is an absolute goon. \n\nyes, he is really like that, and no most people in australia are not like him.\n\nI am Australian\n\n95% of Australians live in a city near the coast. \n\nnot our hunting crocs.\n\nbut we don't just party and laze around on the beach (if only!) \n\nI woke up this morning at 7:30 and put on my security pass and tie, walked out into the frost and drove to my office, here i sit in air conditioned comfort, eyeing off the vending machines and pretending to work. \n\nthis is pretty much the same as most people in Australia, and indeed the world\n\nI am a very adventurous person, but i have only ever "wrestled" one croc, and it was a baby in a zoo.\n\ni very rarely say "crickey", i do not flail my arms about. i would never be seen dead in such tiny shorts, let alone khaki.\n\nI have been out bush many many times, but most people don't. \n\ni have met an australian who had never seen a kangaroo.\n\ni grew up in Canberra, our capital city, kangaroo's would come off the mountains and down into the city streets, possums live in peoples rooves and you'll occasionally see a kookaburra on a telephone pole. but you hardly ever see platypi, wombats or echidna's.\n\nYes we have spiders and snakes, but snakes avoid cities, and when i found a red back in my shower this morning i hit it with a magazine. my house is very normal, my friendsa are very normal, yes we all have accents, but then, we think you have accents.\n\nmy Life looks just like an american sitcom, my office and home are no different. \n\nthere are factories and offices and building sites, just like anywhere.\n\nSteve Irwin is a c0ck
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Search for "Mallee", "Flinders Ranges", "Roxby Downs", "Toxic Waste Dump", "Great Barrier Reef", "Riverland", "Aboriginal" - These will give you a background to some issues on human interaction with the environment in Australia.\n\nAlso check out political parties websites - For non Aussies try "The Greens" "Austalian Labour Party" "Liberal Party" "The Nationals" "The Democrats"
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It is little know that Australia was probably as involved in the Vietnam War as the Americans on a per capita basis based on the population of the two countries. The involvement parallels very close to the U.S. involvement. \n\nAustralia dispatched several batallions to Vietnam in support of the U.S. effort to contain communism in Southeast Asia. As like the U.S., the war became unpopular with several major protests. \n\nUnlike the U.S., Ausralia's involvement was pretty much overlooked by the communist Vietnamese government, which allowed the relationship between Australia and Vietnam to rebuild very quickly after the war ended. In fact, Australian news reporters were on the ground in Saigon when the communists overtook the city, and were safe from agression because they were Australian.
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Edmund Jerry Brown (Democrat)\nCash on hand: $3,668,855 (as of 12/31/05)\nLate Contributions: $202,600 in large contributions since last report.\n   \nRocky Delgadillo (Democrat)\nCash on hand: $2,359,086 (as of 12/31/05)\nLate Contributions: $25,600 in large contributions since last report.\n   \nChuck Poochigian (Republican)\nCash on hand: $2,633,763 (as of 12/31/05)\nLate Contributions: $81,800 in large contributions since last report.\n   \nPierre-Richard Prosper (Republican)\nCash on hand: $53,871 (as of 12/31/05)\nLate Contributions: $16,800 in large contributions since last report.\n   \nKenneth A. Weissman (Libertarian)   \n\nMichael S. Wyman (Green)
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What about Australia?
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Do you mean IS Australia recruiting foreigners to THEIR active duty military?\nIf so...the Australian Military website is a great place to ASK.\nIt is a legitimate question.\nThey have an awesome Navy.
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I support Australia because I'm proud of my country and my team. I enjoy other teams also because of the great football and entertainment they offer me, the effort they and their players give to the game. But my country will always be number 1 with me.
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Britain colonised Australia!\n\nNot the answer you wanted? Well, step by step (you in the USA can do this better then me). \n\nColonists wanted representation, fair enough.\nBritain said NO!\nBoston tea party. (milk and two please)\nWar of independance.\nNo tax to Britain.\nBritain declaares war.\nThe birth of the USA.\nAt this time Britain needed somewhere to send its prisoners as they could no longer send them to the colonies.\nSent them to "The Great South Land of the Holy Ghost" and Australia was born. Thanks Paul Revere and all the other Republicans. Praise God for Republicians!