Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Senate, and from 1950 until his retirement, Brown was the sole Father. He died in 1967. Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (11 February 1885 – 12 January 1967) was a long-serving Australian politician. Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School. He was apprenticed as a pattern maker but had a range of other jobs including piano salesman and coal miner. He visited Canada where he was imprisoned for street agitation. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party. He spent time
Gordon Parsons (singer-songwriter) Fame" in Australia's "capital of country music", Tamworth, New South Wales, and in 1982 he was added to Tamworth's "Hall of Renown". There is also a bust of Parsons in Tamworth. Parsons died on 17 August 1990, at age 63, and is buried in Pinegrove Cemetery. Gordon Parsons (singer-songwriter) Gordon Parsons was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, best known as the composer of Slim Dusty's 1957 hit song "A Pub With No Beer". In 1982, Parsons was inducted into the Australian Roll of Renown. He was born in Paddington, an Eastern suburb of Sydney in 1926, and moved with his