Joseph Cook
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"Sir Joseph Cook", was an Australian politician and the List of Prime Ministers of Australia/sixth Prime Minister of Australia. He worked in the coal mines of Silverdale, Staffordshire during his early life, he emigrated to Lithgow, New South Wales/Lithgow, New South Wales during the late 1880s, and became General-Secretary of the Western Miners Association in 1887.

A founding member of the Australian Labor Party, Cook was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as Member for Electoral district of Hartley (New South Wales)/Hartley on 3 July 1891. Later Cook switched to the Free Trade Party, and was a minister in the Reid ministry (New South Wales)/cabinet of Premier George Reid (Australian politician)/George Reid from 1894 to 1899. Cook was Postmaster-General of New South Wales/Postmaster-General 3 August 1894 to 27 August 1898. During Australia's Australian federal election, 1901/first federal election in 1901, Cook was elected unopposed to the federal seat of Division of Parramatta/Parramatta, and served as the deputy to Reid, then Alfred Deakin, following the creation of the Commonwealth Liberal Party from Cook's and Deakin's parties.

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Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

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We just need to market to (teenagers) through gay-straight alliances in high schools. Just tell them here are some films you might enjoy; come together as a group and join us.

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We don't really have the stereotypical coming-out stories this year, ... I don't know if I saw anything fitting that mold or not. If I did, it wasn't very good.

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I think the opposite is true, ... More people are willing to support, to stand up for their community. They know we bring something to the table for the gay community.

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We were asking: .

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That was never a thought, never an option.

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What's the use of showing films that will end up at multiplexes in six months, or everybody's going to get to see in some way or another? There's so much gay media now and so much access. You can find gay characters on TV with ease. They're all over the place, but they're the same character.

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We took it out in the editing process.

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She was the first person who got me involved and kind of inspired me.

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