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Pete Gray (Peter Robert Gray) was born on 10 May, 1980 in Newcastle, New South Wales, is an Australian environmental activist. Discover Pete Gray's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 30 years old?

Popular As Peter Robert Gray
Occupation Archivist
Age 30 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 10 May, 1980
Birthday 10 May
Birthplace Newcastle, New South Wales
Date of death 30 April, 2011
Died Place N/A
Nationality Australia

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1980

Peter Robert Gray (10 May 1980 – 30 April 2011) was an Australian environmental activist, notable for two landmark court cases, and for having thrown his shoes in public at former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard in protest over Australia's participation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He was described in an obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald as "a pleasure-loving intellectual" driven by "an instinctive anti-authoritarianism bordering on the larrikin".

Gray was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Classics, at the University of Newcastle; and then worked as an archivist in the university library.

He was simultaneously a member of the Rising Tide "climate change action group", campaigning in particular against logging and coal mining.

1997

He asked the court to find that the power station had been "wilfully or negligently disposing of waste [...] by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a manner that has harmed or is likely to harm the environment in contravention of section 115(1) of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997", and sought an injunction against the station.

The case, Gray and Anor v Macquarie Generation, was ongoing at the time of his death.

He was also "the original instigator of what is now an annual flotilla in Newcastle harbour, disrupting the movement of ships for a day at the world’s largest coal export port", and was arrested several times.

2006

In 2006, he took the Government of New South Wales to the Land and Environment Court over its environmental assessment of the Anvil Hill Coal Mine.

The Court found in his favour, ruling that the government had failed to properly assess the greenhouse gas pollution that would be caused by the mining and subsequent use of the coal.

It was described by Greenpeace as a "landmark case [...] that forced tougher scrutiny of coal mine emissions in Australia".

2009

In 2009, he initiated what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation described as "the first ever legal action aimed at curbing greenhouse gas pollution from a coal-fired power station", by taking Bayswater Power Station owners Macquarie Generation to the Land and Environment Court.

Diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2009, he died of the cancer five months later, aged 30 years.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation had retained Gray's shoes after he had thrown them, and Gray asked that they be sold at auction, with the money to be donated to the International Committee for the Red Cross and its work in Iraq.

Upon Gray's death, Howard endorsed the idea, and Jones announced it would be seen to.

2010

In October 2010, Gray was in the audience of a Q&A talk show episode in which members of the public were invited to ask questions to former Prime Minister John Howard.

Gray asked:

Dissatisfied with John Howard's reply, and prevented from asking a follow-up question due to host Tony Jones telling him "We've got to move on", Gray, apologising to Jones, threw both his shoes at the former Prime Minister, and shouted: "That's for the Iraqi dead".

Neither of the shoes hit Howard.

Partner Naomi Hodgson, who had accompanied him, left the studio with him, shouting that Howard had "blood on [his] hands".

The action echoed that of Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who had thrown his shoes at the President of the United States, George W. Bush, during a press conference two years earlier.

Gray's action "hit the headlines" in Australia, and also received global media coverage.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard condemned the action, saying there was "no excuse for that kind of disrespectful conduct towards anyone", and Tony Jones described him as an "idiot", which Gray later commented "does actually hurt a bit coming from Tony Jones".

Gray himself later said that he had found the event "stressful" because it wasn't "in [his] own nature" to throw anything at anyone.

He subsequently published an article in The Newcastle Herald, explaining his action:

The following month, in November 2010, he married Naomi Hodgson.

2011

The online auction took place on 26 August 2011, "with all proceeds to be directed to the Red Cross's aid efforts in Iraq".

The shoes were bought by Volley, the company that had made them, for A$3,650.

2013

They were intended to be displayed in the company's online museum of "well-worn Volleys", regardless the Volley Museum webpage was removed in early 2013 having never featured the shoes.

It is unknown what happened to the shoes after this time.