Occupation: Australian Senator Birth: December 27, 1944
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, p….
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance..
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything..
Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential ….
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls..
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much..
I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock..
Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance t….
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 ….
The future will either be green or not at all..
Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as….
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed chi….
As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations..
Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the charact….
There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying. What I say.. it ma….
We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has mo….
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….
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings..
Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future..
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years..
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium..