Optimism
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2014
350 pages
978-1-74358-224-4 (ISBN)
Description
'Optimism is a key ingredient for any successful human endeavour - and isn't keeping Earth viable the greatest human endeavour we can ever undertake? It is a fortunate life if a person feels more optimistic than ever before. That's me.'Bob Brown, one of Australia's most thoughtful and recognised public figures, shares stories and insights from both his public and private life in Optimism. Since retiring from public life, Bob Brown has had time to reflect on the events that have made an impression, the ideas that have caught his imagination, and the people that have stayed in his thoughts.Inspirational, big-hearted and impassioned, Optimism is a meditation on the great and the small, rich with metaphor and full of warmth.Here are stories from a life set for downfall that found its salvation in action: Bob Brown's journey to a simple philosophy for happiness.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Rhapsody of Oura Oura
- 2 The best doctor in town
- 3 Rescuing Strawberry
- 4 The love of John's life
- 5 Jimi on a bier
- 6 Drumnadrochit
- 7 Fasting on Mount Wellington
- 8 1976
- 9 The Irenabyss
- 10 Impossibility and certainty are together on Earth
- 11 The old man in the shed
- 12 Jack Spooner
- 13 Her Majesty's Prison, 1982
- 14 The new religion
- 15 Flying with Di
- 16 Banning lesbians
- 17 Waiting for catastrophe
- 18 A good gully, a good damper
- 19 The Nelson Falls
- 20 2.40 am
- 21 Turmoil in Timor-Leste
- 22 Oh Tibet!
- 23 Starry, starry nights
- 24 Wielangta
- 25 Blackwater
- 26 'You must hate the world ...'
- 27 Afghanistan
- 28 Shackled in Mogadishu
- 29 Picturing Recherche Bay
- 30 'I am an environmentalist.'
- 31 Julia Gillard, PM
- 32 Gillard pre-empts Abbott
- 33 Agreeing to government
- 34 Guardian of Walmadan
- 35 Ambush in the Senate
- 36 Ambush in the Great Hall
- 37 Little strangers
- 38 The New Political Correctness
- 39 He sounds like John Lennon
- 40 Third Green Oration: We people of the Earth ...
- 41 Third Green Oration: Plutocracy or democracy?
- 42 Third Green Oration: A global parliament
- 43 Third Green Oration: One person, one vote, one value, one planet
- 44 Ingrid
- 45 'I have never advocated violence.'
- 46 High tea with Miranda
- 47 Horizontal hail
- 48 A toast to Australia 'Ne na!'
- 49 Killers on the loose
- 50 White goshawks
- 51 The good work of Cynthia
- 52 Saving the whales
- 53 Pitfalls in the night
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Page
