"Brian Roper Archer" was an Australians/Australian Australian Senate/Senator who represented the Liberal Party of Australia/Liberal Party for the state of Tasmania.

Archer was born in Calder, Tasmania/Calder, Tasmania and worked as a real estate consultant and farmer before entering parliament. He was elected at the Australian federal election, 1975/1975 election, and served as a Senator from 13 December 1975 until his resignation on 31 January 1994.

When John Howard became Leader of the Opposition in September 1985, Archer was appointed Shadow Special Minister of State and Spokesman on Science. He held those positions until August 1987.

He died on 10 March 2013, aged 83.

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I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat.

This is the way the market works, but this is an unusual year.

Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up.

We're staring record energy prices in the face every day, it seems.