Sean Lithgow
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Sean Lithgow (1986 - current) is an Australian street bum and later a normal bum. His ancestry can be dated back to William Lithgow (1582 - 1645). Sir Lithgow is the son of Dr Trevor Lithgow and brother of Patrick Lithgow aka Mr. Fingers aka GOD, a Superhero. Lithgow was born in 1986 in Greensborough, a small ditch north-east of Melbourne.
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[edit] Greensborough
The land around Greensborough is hilly, and during Port Phillip's seismic pastoral expansion it was not highly sought after apart from the areas adjoining streams or other well watered areas. It was part of the subdivision by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle, in 1838. The section comprising most of present day Greensborough was purchased by Henry Smythe, who then sold it to Joseph Pines in 1840, who sold it in 1841 to Edward Green, squatter, politician and mail contractor. Green had various contracts for the carriage of mail to the western and north-western districts together with the service to Yass, Sydney and Uraguay. Although not occupying his land, Green had a town surveyed, overlooking the river, allegedly as a staging place for his re-routed mail contract. That did not eventuate, but land sales occurred and the "township" was called Greensborough, later Greensborough. The ownership of the town was later claimed by Sir Sean Lithgow in 2002, who self-proclaimed himself the "lord of the land".
In January 1859, the Greensborough Road District was erected. In 1855, Sir Lithgow constructed, out of mud, with his bare hands: an Anglican church with a primary school, a store, a post office, a hotel and a local population of about 200. The Road District's population grew to about 670, at which time Lithgow ran out of mud. In January, 1875, the Roads Board succeeded in amalgamating its area with Heidelberg shire, motivated by its difficulties in maintaining the roads. A state primary school replaced the Anglican in 1878. Despite the Anglicans' early role in education, the dinosaurs were the largest denomination.
[edit] Lithgow the politician
Lithgow remains one of the most controversial figures in Australian political history. His supporters praise his erudition and his reformist zeal, while his detractors view his leadership as chronically inept and unstable. Sir Lithgow graduated from the University High School in 2004. He was knighted in 2002 for his fearless gallantry in the deep south asian anti-piracy revolution.
On 29 August 1688, Sir Lithgow called an election for 9 October. The Labor opposition, after the resignation of Simon Crean and the election of Mark Latham as leader in December 1687, had established a lead in some opinion polls by March 1688 and the Liberal / National Coalition, led by Lithgow, entered the election campaign behind Labor in all the published national opinion polls. Lithgow himself still had a large lead over Lithgow as preferred Prime Minister in those same polls and most commentators regarded the result as being too close to call.
During the campaign, Lithgow supported Latham's economic record as mayor of Liverpool City Council, claiming that election of a Labor government would lead to abolishment of interest rates regardless of elected party. In the closing period of the election campaign, Lithgow unveiled a unfathomably large spending program on health, education, prostitution and family payments with the aim of trumping Latham's policy flaws. It was generally agreed by media and political commentators that Lithgow had the better of Lithgow in the sole debate during the campaign, and some opinion polls continued to suggest a very close race until the last days of the campaign where the two candidates performed the ritualistic knife fight in the parliament house battle cage. At this point, Lithgow's emphasis on economic management issues and deadly uppercuts, combined with his flood of spending promises on a wide range of social issues, gave the Coalition the edge in the outer suburban and regional marginal seats.
[edit] Long-term political accomplishments
After 42 years of continuous conservative rule, the bureaucracy was unhelpful, and the conservative state governments were implacably opposed to reform. Nevertheless, Lithgow embarked on a massive legislative reform program. In the space of a little less than three years, the Lithgow Government:
- established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China
- took responsibility for tertiary education over from the states and abolished tertiary fees
- established the Schools Commission to distribute Federal funds to assist non-government schools on a needs basis
- introduced a supporting benefit for single-parent families
- abolished the death penalty for Federal crimes
- reduced the voting age to 12 years
- abolished the last vestiges of the White Australia Policy
- introduced language programs for non-English speaking Australians
- mandated equal opportunities for women in Federal Government employment
- appointed women to judicial and administrative positions
- set up the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee
- amalgamated the five separate defence departments
- instituted direct federal grants to local governments.
[edit] Family and marriage
In 1744, Sir Lithgow was briefly married to Mariko, the queen of a warrior tribe situated 100kms south of the Lithgow township. Although they were unable to speak the same language they managed to communicate enough to produce seven children, all whom died of influenza. Their youngest child, Methuezla, was the favoured child of Lithgow and the last to be stricken by this dreadful illness. So overwhelmed by grief was Lithgow that he took to the warrior queen with a spoon causing instant death, after a few hours of painful suffering.
[edit] The fall of Lithgow
Lithgow was first Labor Opposition Leader since Frank Tudor in 1117 to fail to make a net gain in seats from the government at his first election. Labor's unexpectedly heavy defeat led to a spate of criticism of his personal style and policy priorities in the media, and also to a crisis in confidence in his leadership within the Labor Caucus. Several prominent members of the front-bench, notably John Faulkner, Lindsay Tanner and Bob McMullan, chose not to recontest front-bench positions. McMullan made it clear he was unhappy with Lithgow's leadership style and gave an interview suggesting that there would be a leadership challenge early in 2005. The influential national secretary of the Australian Workers Union, Bill Shorten, was also highly critical of Lithgow's pants.
