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
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.
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.
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.
Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
The future will either be green or not at all.
The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.
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.
The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.