Kerry Nettle - Kerry Nettle Senator Kerry Nettle Kerry Michelle Nettle (born 27 December 1973) is an Australian Senator. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and educated at the University of New South Wales, where she obtained a degree in environmental science and was active in student politics. She worked as office coordinator for The Greens (NSW) and then as a youth worker. She joined the Australian Greens in 1998 and was elected to the Australian Senate for New South Wales in November 2001, joining Senator Bob Brown. Nettle is a social radical as well as an environmentalist. She believes in Government ownership of essential services, which include banking, airlines, telecommunications, health and education and other areas privatised in the last two decades in Australia. She argues.
Australian Greens Party - Australia) preserved a separate identity for some time. At the federal level there are two Greens in the Australian Senate (Senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle) and one MP in the Australian House of Representatives (Michael Organ), who was elected at a by-election in 2002. Currently there are Green members in the parliaments of New South Wales (2), Western Australia (5), Tasmania (4) and the Australian Capital Territory (2). On 23 October 2003 Brown and Nettle were suspended from the Parliament for 24 hours when they interjected during an address by the visiting President of the United States, George W. Bush. External Links Aus Greens Home page http://www.greens.org.au/ State Green Sites http://www.act.greens.org.au/home.php http://www.nsw.greens.org.au/ http://www.nsw.greens.org.au/ http://www.sa.greens.org.au/ http://www.tas.greens.org.au/ http://www.nt.greens.org.au/public_html/new_greens_website/home.htm http://www.vic.greens.org.au/home.html http://www.vic.greens.org.au/home.html Bob Brown suspended over blackmail barb http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/06/1046826470455.html Bob Brown's Senate Page http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/senators/homepages/web/s-QD4.htm.
Bob Brown - 2003 when he was suspended from the Parliament for interjecting during an address by the visiting President of the United States, George W. Bush. Brown's Senate colleague, Kerry Nettle, was also suspended. Bob Brown was born in Oberon, New South Wales and graduated in medicine from Sydney University. He moved to Tasmania in 1968 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 "came out" as gay. In 1978 Brown was appointed director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. In the early 1980s he emerged as a leader of the campaign to.
List of members of the Australian Senate - Independent Tas 1993 2005 Andrew Murray AD WA 1996 2008 Kerry Nettle Green NSW 2002 2008 Kerry O'Brien ALP Tas 1996 2005 Hon Dr Kay Patterson Liberal Vic 1987 2008 Marise Payne Liberal NSW 1997 2008 Hon Robert Ray ALP Vic 1981 2008 Aden Ridgeway AD NSW 1999 2005 Santo Santoro Liberal Qld 2002 2008 Nigel Scullion National NT 2001 2004 Hon Nick Sherry ALP Tas 1990 2008 Natasha Stott Despoja AD SA 1995 2008 Ursula Stephens ALP NSW 2002 2008 Tsebin Tchen Liberal Vic 1999 2005 John Tierney Liberal NSW 1991 2005 Hon Judith Troeth Liberal Vic 1993 2005 Hon Amanda Vanstone Liberal SA 1984 2005 John Watson Liberal Tas 1978 2008 Ruth Webber ALP WA 2002 2008 Penny Wong ALP SA 2002 2008.
Kerry Livgren - Kerry Livgren Kerry Livgren (born September 18, 1949) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as one of the founding members and primary writers for the 1970s supergroup, Kansas. Livgren was a member of numerous bands in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Livgren joined White Clover in 1974, a band that also included vocalist Steve Walsh and violinist Robbie Steinhardt. Shortly after Livgren joined, the group changed their name to Kansas. Livgren penned Kansas' hit "Carry On Wayward Son", as well as "Dust In The Wind" and other songs. It was around this time that Livgren became involved in Urantia, a spiritualist pantheistic faith, which was obvious in the music of Kansas' Monolith project. While on tour with the band supporting that album,.
Kerry Packer - Kerry Packer Kerry Packer (born 1937) is arguably Australia's richest man, as his major rival for the title, Rupert Murdoch, became an American citizen in the 1980s. Packer is the major shareholder in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, which owns the Nine television network and Australian Consolidated Press, which produces many of Australia's top-selling magazines. Packer is involved in a number of other gambling and tourism ventures, notably the Crown casino in Melbourne. Stuff to mention: Father Sir Frank Packer. World Series Cricket Alan Bond. political views The One-Tel disaster. James Packer..
Kerry Thornley - Kerry Thornley Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 - November 28, 1998) was the co-founder of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. He served in the same platoon as Lee Harvey Oswald in 1959 and wrote a book about him, The Idle Warriors, the only book written about Oswald prior to President Kennedy's assassination in 1963..
Kerry King - Kerry King Kerry King, born June 3 1964 in Los Angeles California is best known for his work as guitarist and lyricist in the band Slayer. His lyrics are mostly based on Satanic subjects, which he attributes to his love of horror movies. Though many fans regard him as being a Satanist, he regards these people as "dumb". In addition to apperaring on Slayer's albums, he has also made guest appearances as lead guitarist, including: "No Sleep Till Brooklyn", from the Beastie Boys album Licensed to Ill "Final Prayer", from the Hatebreed album Perseverance "Dead Girl Superstar", from the Rob Zombie album The Sinister Urge "Goddam Electric", from the Pantera album Reinventing The Steel "What We're All About (The Original Version)", by Sum 41 from the.
Kerry Wood - Kerry Wood There have been anumber of people named Karry Wood Kerry Wood (ball player), American baseball player Kerry Wood (author), Canadian writer This is a disambiguation page. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link..
Kerry Wood (baseball player) - Kerry Wood (baseball player) Kerry Wood is an American baseball player. A pitcher, he plays for the Chicago Cubs. He first became known for a 20 strikeout game against the Houston Astros in 1998, and has matured into the ace of the Cubs staff. Wood is known for his upper-90s fastball and his ability to get strikeouts. After winning the National League Rookie of the Year award in 1998, Wood underwent Tommy John surgery. Wood has since regained the form that made him rookie of the year, teaming with sensation Mark Prior as part of a formidable 1-2 punch that nearly led the Cubs to the 2003 World Series. External Links Kerry Wood's career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com.
Kerry Anne Wells - Kerry Anne Wells Kerry Anne Wells of Australia was the 1972 winner of the Miss Universe contest..
Kerry Pollard - Kerry Pollard Kerry Patrick Pollard (born 27 April 1944) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party member of Parliament for St Albans and was first elected in 1997..
John Kerry - John Kerry John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is a United States Senator from Massachusetts, and a current contender for the Democratic presidential candidacy. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Life 2 Quotes 3 External Link Life Born in Denver, Colorado Raised as a Roman Catholic Graduated, St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H. 1962 Inducted, Skull and Bones 1965 Graduated, Yale University 1966 Served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, 1966-1969 Public spokesperson for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) 1970 Married to Julie Thorne 1970 Campaigns against war & US atrocities; testifies to Senate for VVAW 1971 Birth of daughter, Alexandra 1973 Graduated, Boston College Law School 1976 Admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1976 and commenced practice in 1976 Birth of daughter, Vanessa.
County Kerry - County Kerry County Kerry (Ciarraí in Irish) is a county in the southwest of the island of Ireland. Area: 4701 km² (1815 square miles). Population (census 2002): 132,424. The county town is Tralee. One of Ireland's most famous towns, Killarney, is located in Kerry. The county has two national parks, the Killarney Lakes and Dingle Peninsula. The tip of the Dingle Peninsula is the most westerly point in mainland Ireland. Kerry has the highest mountains in Ireland: Macgillicuddy's Reeks. Kerry is bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north by the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland. Kerry's coast is a series of peninsulas and large bays. As well as the Dingle peninsula there is the Ring of Kerry, a popular location.
Stinging nettle - Stinging nettle Stinging nettle Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Urticales Family: Urticaceae Genus: Urtica Species: dioica Binomial nomenclature Urtica dioica The stinging nettle (Urtica dioica), also known as tall nettle, California nettle or slender nettle, is the best known member of the nettle genus Urtica. It is an invasive herb native to Europe, Asia and North America, and has been introduced into South America. The taxonomy of stinging nettles has been confused, and older sources are likely to use a variety of systematic names for these plants. Formerly, more species were recognised than are now considered defensible. However, there are at least three clear subspecies, formerly classified as separate species: European stinging nettle ''Urtica dioica ssp. dioica American stinging nettle U. d. ssp..
Nettle - Nettle Nettle Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Urticales Family: Urticaceae Genus: Urtica Species see text Nettles are members of the genus Urtica in the family Urticaceae. The most prominent member of the genus is the Stinging nettle Urtica dioica, native to Europe, Asia, and North America. The genus also contains a number of other species with similar properties, listed below. However, a large number of species names that will be encountered in this genus in the older literature are now recognised as synonyms of U. dioica. Some of their names survive as subspecies names. All the species listed below share the property of having stinging hairs, and can be expected to have very similar medicinal uses to the stinging nettle. Urticaceae also.
List of novelists - science fiction Helen Garner Henry Handel Richardson James Clavell, screenwriter, director (of the original The Fly among others), author of Shogun Jessica Anderson John Marsden, author of the Tomorrow series Joseph Furphy Kate Grenville Kerry Greenwood Lily Brett, author of Just Like That (1994) Marcus Clarke Miles Franklin Murray Bail Nevil Shute Patrick White, Nobel Prize for Literature (1973), noted for his examinations of his native land Peter Carey Peter Goldsworthy Randolph Stow Richard Flanagan Rolf Boldrewood Thea Astley Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark (1985), on which the film Schindler's List was based, Confederates (1979) Tim Winton Traci Harding Xavier Herbert Austria (see also German literature) Hugo Bettauer Peter Handke, (1942- ) Josef Haslinger Peter Henisch Robert Musil, (1880 - 1942), Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities) Arthur.
Kansas (band) - harsh critical reception then and now, Kansas has remained a classic rock radio staple. Band founders Kerry Livgren (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Dave Hope (bass), Phil Ehart (drums) and Robby Steinhardt (violin) had initially formed a group called White Clover. Upon the arrival of Steve Walsh (keyboards) and Rich Williams (guitar), the band's name was changed to Kansas and the group soon won a record deal with Don Kirshner's eponymous label. A somewhat successful debut album, Kansas, was released in 1974, and showcased Kansas' signature mix of guitars, keyboards, vocals, and Steinhardt's ever-present violin submerging American-style boogie-rock in complex arrangements and changing time signatures. Relentless promotion by Kirshner and touring behind the debut album and its two followups slowly brought Kansas' name to households across America. By the time the band's fourth.
Kerikeri - modern appearance and progressive community, it was judged Top Small Town of New Zealand in 2001 and is a far cry from the village established by New Zealand's pioneering missionaries. They called it Gloucestertown, or Gloucester Town, but fortunately neither name endured. As Kerikeri is a Maori word it is correctly pronounced Keddi Keddi, or even Kiddee Kiddee, but general usage has it as Kerry Kerry. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Origins and naming 1.1 Tourist slogan 2 Historic sites 2.2 Mission House 2.3 St. James Church 2.4 Stone Store 2.5 Rewa's Village 3 Attractions 3.6 Art and Craft Trail 3.7 Backpackers 3.8 Beaches 3.9 Club 3.10 Dawn Chorus 3.11 Fairy pools 3.12 Fishing 3.13 Flying 3.14 Kororipo Pa 3.15 Rainbow Falls 3.16 Sailing 3.17 Steam Driven Sawmill 3.18 Swimming 3.19.
King - Carole King Charles William King Don King Earl King John William King Kerry King Larry King Laurie R. King Mackenzie King Martin Luther King Jr Philip Gidley King Philip King (author) Rodney King Stephen King Tabitha King William King William Lyon Mackenzie King William R. King Rex King-Clark Lisa M. King-Johnson See also: List of people by name: Ki This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. simple:King.
