Pete Gray
Peter Robert Gray (10 May 1980, in Newcastle, New South Wales – 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".
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Birth date | May 10, 1980 |
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Birth name | Peter Robert Gray |
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Date of death | April 30, 2011 |
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