suseonline - Neither his money nor his personality will help him unless he looks at his obvious health problems

I'd warrant Big Clive is a lot fitter than you. For what its worth he lost a LOT of weight a few years back and has religiously followed a quite stringent lifestyle program since then. I'm in far better condition than 90% of people my age however it would be a real challenge to do even half of what he achieves in a day.

Paul 1405 - The Greens were much more than merely a one issue environmental party, but rather a broad based grass roots democratic party which was in tune with my thinking, and had committed people who could offer a real alternative to both Labor and Liberal

From my perspective the Greens did have potential however the Queensland mob did a few things that put them right off the radar in Queensland. I had quite a bit of interaction with a few members in connection with a local 'development' proposal (actually it was more like rape & pillage) just before the 2009 state election. Mind you they had a few totally hairbrained ideas that never should have left the drawing board. The very day after the election, the local branch went AWOL and even the national tribe couldn't contact anyone. The area I now live has a number of what could only be described as fanatically rabid tree-huggers (with good reason) and consequently one would expect a switched-on Greens connection. Problem is that the Queensland Party (on the rare occasions it comes out of hibernation) is really only interested in getting someone in to gubmunt and they figure thats easier done in Brisbane where there are plenty of educated idiot pretend greenies who crap on about unrelated issues (homosexual rights and so on), not the 'proper' ones whose interest is flora & fauna.