Lee Rhiannon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lee Rhiannon
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 30, 1951(1951-05-30)
Age	73
Birthplace	New South Wales
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Taurus

Lee Rhiannon Biography

Lee Rhiannon is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 30, 1951 in New South Wales, Australia. Rhiannon was born Lee Brown, the daughter of Bill and Freda Brown, both members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in the 1930s and then the splinter that was a Soviet-allied Socialist Party of Australia (SPA) in the 1970s. As early as at the age of 7 the Browns’ parents she was subject to observation by Australian anti-spionage group, ASIO. The CPA’s youth group was a factor in ASIO’s decision. In 1968, along with her friends she joined High School Students Against Vietnam War. She completed her secondary education through Sydney Girls High School in 1969, and graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science majoring in zoology and botany with honors in botany in the University of New South Wales.

Between 1980 and 1982 from 1980 to 1982, she was a member of the Women’s Advisory Council to the NSW government. She also during the same period , she was also secretary of the NSW government. NSW secretary for the Union of Australian Women. She was a participant in an event called the World Congress of Women in Moscow in 1987. The 1980s were when she worked as an editor “for unions including the Maritime Union of Australia.” She was the founder of in 1988 the Coalition for Gun Control in 1988, and AID/WATCH from 1993. Her membership in the Greens in the year 1990. In the 90s, she was working in the Rainforest Information Centre in the 1990s, where she fought for the protection of tropical forests.

Rhiannon contested the New South Wales Legislative Council at the 1999 state election for the Australian Greens. She was elected with three percent of the statewide vote, joining fellow Green Ian Cohen in the state’s upper house. She was re-elected with over nine percent of the vote at the 2007 state election, taking her seat with three other Greens MLCs.

In November 2002, in the week prior to protests against the World Trade Organization in Sydney, Rhiannon spoke in support of the protesters and organised a public conference on Civil Disobedience at the NSW Parliament. Rhiannon spoke against police actions during the S11 Protests, which violently protested against meetings of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne in 2000. Rhiannon called on Police Minister Michael Costa to guarantee that police violence would not be used against protesters in Sydney. Costa in return called on Rhiannon to resign for hosting the civil disobedience seminar. Rhiannon lobbied the Vatican against considering the Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, for the position of Pope because of his conservative views. In 2007 she referred him to the parliamentary privileges committee, alleging “contempt of parliament” for comments he made in opposition to embryonic stem cell research legislation.

The year 1977 was the time that Brown got married to Pat O’Gorman and they divorced in the latter half of the 1980s. In the course of her marriage, she carried as her name “O’Gorman.” The couple have three sons. After the separation she took on the name of her surname “Rhiannon”, the name of a person in Welsh mythology.

Lee Rhiannon Net Worth

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

Lee Rhiannon (born 30 May 1951) is an ex- Australian politician who served as Senator for New South Wales between July 2011 until August 2018. She was elected in the federal election of 2010 and was a member of her party, the Australian Greens. In the years prior to being elected in the Federal Parliament, Rhiannon was an Greens NSW member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1999 and 2010.

She was part of the SPA in the year 1973. In the 1980s, she was a part of helping organize the “peace camp” protest outside the joint Australian-US defence facility located at Pine Gap, in central Australia. In the words of Mark Aarons, she left the SPA in the mid-80s. Editorial duties were assigned to the publication, Survey which was a bi-monthly review of the latest developments within the Soviet Union and other socialist countries from 1988 until the time it stopped publication in the year 1990. The subject of her history was scrutinized when she was a candidate for Senate.

Rhiannon used her New South Wales maiden parliamentary speech in 1999 to announce her opposition to a development proposal by the Carr Labor Government for Walsh Bay. Rhiannon called on the Labor Party to advance instead the party’s constitutional ideals for “redistribution of political and economic power” and “the development of public enterprises based upon… forms of social ownership”. Rhiannon also spoke against Australia’s British colonial legacy and announced that she was the first MLC to sit in the NSW Parliament without the title “Honourable”. She spoke of her family’s involvement in the labour movement and acknowledged her parents’ membership of the Communist Party of Australia and said she was proud of their tradition of “optimistic social activism”. She reiterated Greens opposition to privatisation of public assets and to the Howard Government’s Goods and Services Tax.

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Rhiannon took up her seat in the Australian Senate on 1 July 2011 and in August 2011 it was reported that Rhiannon had refused to back away from the BDS campaign.

Facts & Trivia

Lee Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Lee Rhiannon celebrates birthday on May 30 of every year.

As of May 2014, Rhiannon held the following portfolios: Animal Welfare; Democracy & Local Government; Forests; Higher Education; International Aid & Development; Transport; Water & Murray Darling Basin.