Who was bob brown and the greens?

Answer 1

Bob Brown was an Australian Greens (Environmentalist) politician, medical doctor, environmentalist and 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 reelected 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 and unofficial Greens leader in Tasmania.

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 April of 2012, with the Labor Party back in power he resigned his seat as Senator, primarily due to his Carbon Tax ideas, which would have hurt the economy according to the Australian news and opponents. It was Brown who convinced Ralph Nader to run as president here in the United States. Although he hasn't given up on the Greens movement in Tasmania and still does Green speaking engagements to anyone who will listen.