Bob Brown biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Bob Brown

Author Name:

Bob Brown

Born As:

Robert James Brown

Other Names:

Born:

27 Dec 1944

Died:





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Australian Environmental Politician                          
Selected Works:

Wild Rivers - 1983
Lake Pedder - 1986
Tarkine Trails - 1994
The Greens - 1996, with Peter Singer
Memo For A Saner World - 2004
Valley of the Giants - 2004
Tasmania's Recherche Bay - 2005
Earth - 2009
In Balfour Street - 2010 

In 2004 James Norman published the first authorised biography of Brown, entitled Bob Brown: A Gentle Revolutionary.                          
Partner Paul Thomas                          
Awards:

The Australian Newspaper -  ‘Australian of the Year’ - 1983
IUCN Packard Award - 1984
UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honour - 1987
Goldman Environmental Prize - 1990
MAPW Distinguished Physician Award - 1990
BBC Wildlife magazine ‘World's Most Inspiring Politician’ - 1996
National Trust Australian National Treasure - 1998
Rainforest Action Network Environmental Hero - 2006
Australian Peace Prize - 2009
Australian Humanist of the Year - 2010                          
In his senior year he was elected School Captain. MB BS - Sydney University.

Was a member of the United Tasmania Group in 1972, Australia's first "green" party.

Members of the staff took a pacifist stance by refusing to certify young men who did not wish to fight in the Vietnam War as fit to be conscripted - Royal Canberra Hospital.

Was on duty at St Mary Abbott's Hospital in South Kensington, when Jimi Hendrix was brought in to the emergency ward, already dead.

Fasted for a week on top of Mt Wellington in protest against the arrival at Hobart of the nuclear powered warship USS Enterprise.

Gifted a 14 hectares - 35 acre property and house he had owned for 38 years to the conservation group Bush Heritage Australia.

Contributed $100,000 to Nigel Brennan, an Australian photojournalist who was kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for 462 days.