Brian Greig

Quick Facts

Full Name	Brian Greig
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1966(1966-02-22)
Age	58
Country	Australia
Birth City	Fremantle
Horoscope	Aquarius

Brian Greig Biography

Brian Greig is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on February 22, 1966 in Fremantle, Australia. Brian Andrew Greig, OAM (born on 22nd February, 1966), Australian politician, was an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Senate from 1999 until 2005. He represented Western Australia. Western Australia.

In the Senate Greig was the one responsible of introducing three items legislation: a bill that would ban genocide in Australia and a bill to end discrimination against bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender people as well as a bill to encourage the use of open source by the government software ahead of all other. All three bills failed, since they were thwarted by Liberal- National’s government. Greig was a candidate for re-election during the 2004 election however, he lost his seat in the race to Rachel Siewert of the Australian Greens. The term he was serving expired on June 30, 2005.

In the October 1998 elections in the federal government, Greig was elected to the Senate. Greig declared his homosexuality in his first parliamentary address and was the first Federal parliamentarian to declare his homosexuality. While he was an active campaigner on social justice issues however, he was not well-known until 2002. The former Leader Meg Lees had been attempting to take over her predecessor along with help of three senators–deputy leaders Aden Ridgeway (NSW), Andrew Murray (WA) and John Cherry (Qld)–forced the resignation of the leader Natasha Stott Despoja. As deputy, Ridgeway (who was elected by the members of the party) was likely to fill the vacancy . He was backed by the majority of Party Room support but Greig was able to challenge him in the last minute and the Democrats who were the ruling National Executive appointed him instead. He was in charge of the party for six weeks before his defeat in the subsequent leadership contest to Andrew Bartlett in October, 2002.

Brian Greig Net Worth

Brian Greig is one of the richest Politician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Brian Greig 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At the university, Greig campaigned for the issue of fees for students as well. In 1986 his efforts helped revive the National Union of Students. He started to be involved in the gay rights movement in the late 1990s and helped to establish the Australian Council for Lesbian and Gay Rights that has since been dissolved.

In the 1990s, he worked for a variety of Australian Labor Party politicians, including Senator Peter Cook, but became disillusioned with Labor and switched to the Democrats. From 1995 to 1999 Greig was elected a local-government councillor for Vincent, a West Australian town of Vincent.

Since leaving parliament, Greig has worked in real estate and has contributed to forums such as On Line Opinion and Crikey. On 13 June 2011, Greig was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community as a social justice advocate for the gay and lesbian community. In July 2012, Brian Greig was narrowly elected National President of the Australian Democrats, following a national ballot of the membership of the party. However, he resigned three and a half weeks later without having chaired a National Executive meeting, and the party’s national secretary reported “severe friction” within the party.

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Brian Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Brian Greig celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.