Rachel Mary Siewert (born 4 November 1961) is an Australian Greens politician who was elected to represent Western Australia in the Australian Senate at the 2004 federal election.
She holds a BSc (Agric) from the University of Western Australia and worked with the Western Australian Department of Agriculture as a research officer in 1984–87. She was prominently involved in the establishment and running of the Conservation Council of Western Australia, and was awarded the Bessie Rischbieth Conservation Award in 2003.
Her membership of parliamentary committees includes:
Rachel (Hebrew: רחל, Modern Raḥel Tiberian Rāḫēl, Rāḥēl ISO 259-3 Raḥel ; meaning "ewe") as described in the Bible, is a prophet and the favorite wife of Jacob, one of the three Biblical Patriarchs, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife. Jacob was her first cousin, and she was the youngest niece of Rebecca.
Rachel is first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 29 when Jacob happens upon her as she is watering her lamb. He had traveled a great distance to find his mother's brother, Laban. Rebekah had sent him there to be safe from his furious twin brother, Esau.
During Jacob's stay, he fell in love with Rachel and agreed to work seven years for Laban in return for her hand in marriage. On the night of the wedding, the bride was veiled and Jacob did not notice that Leah, Rachel's older sister, had been substituted for Rachel. Whereas "Rachel was lovely in form and beautiful," "Leah had tender eyes". Later Jacob confronted Laban, who excused his own deception by insisting that the older sister should marry first. He assured Jacob that after his wedding week was finished, he could take Rachel as a wife as well, and work another seven years as payment for her.
Louise Clare Pratt (born 18 April 1972) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia. She had been assured of election at the 2007 federal election after winning the first position on the Labor ticket, defeating incumbent Senator Ruth Webber in a preselection contest. Pratt previously served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 2001 to 2007. She was the youngest woman ever elected to the Legislative Council at the time of her election, the second open lesbian to be elected to an Australian parliament, and the first to have a transsexual man as a partner.
Pratt was born in Kalgoorlie, and grew up in the outer hills suburbs of Perth, where she attended Eastern Hills Senior High School. She studied arts at the University of Western Australia, where she became involved in student politics. After taking on a number of positions at her campus, she was elected as the state education officer for the National Union of Students, as well as a member of its national executive, in 1994.
Toru Suzuki (鈴木 亨, Suzuki Tōru?, born 28 May 1966) is a Japanese professional golfer, currently playing on the Japan Golf Tour.
Suzuki was born in Gifu Prefecture. He turned professional in 1990.
Suzuki won his first event on the Japan Golf Tour in 1993, and would win consistently between then and 2004.
Suzuki qualified for his first major championship in 1998 at The Open Championship after a win in Japan at the Sapporo Tokyu Open. He missed the cut. He also played in the 2002 Open Championship, but missed the 36-hole cut there, too.
Suzuki ended a five year winless drought in Japan in 2009 with a five stroke win in October at the mynavi ABC Championship.
Suzuki has earned over 753,000,000 Yen in his career on the Japan Golf Tour, which is equivalent to over $8,200,000.
He is the father of two children, one of whom is Airi Suzuki, a Japanese pop singer.