Valerie Brown met the queen, was arrested – and led Greenpeace Australia

Valerie Brown Scribe Publications As a child watching people from the roof of her Brisbane home, Valerie A. Brown, now in her nineties, noticed how “their actions did not match their stated ideals.” She dedicated her life to changing this, becoming one of Australia’s foremost change-makers. In an era when most women could only dream of careers, she had numerous highly successful ones, changing Australia’s social and intellectual landscape quietly but profoundly. The list of her roles is long…