On This Gay Day: Bob Brown was elected to federal parliament

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On This Gay Day: Bob Brown was elected to federal parliament

Bob Brown became the first politician elected to the federal parliament who had publicly shared they were homosexual Australian went to the polls on 2nd March 1996 bringing an end to to the Keating Labor government and bringing John Howard to power. The Hawke-Keating government has been in power for five terms since 1983. Elected to the parliament on that day was Tasmanian politician Bob Brown who would go on to become one of the loudest critics…