Clare Rewcastle Brown
Clare Rewcastle Brown | |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 28 |
Clare Rewcastle Brown is best known for being an environmental journalist and founder of sarawakreport.org. [1]
Early Life
Clare lived in Sarawak until she was 8 years old, attending primary school there. She then moved to the United Kingdom where she eventually became a journalist.
Career
Clare Rewcastle Brown is a journalist and founder of SarawakReport [2] She covers mostly environmental issues, specifically the concerns of deforestation in Sarawak. She also runs Radio Free Sarawak [3].Until recently both SarawakReport and Radio Free Sarawak were anonymously run.
Clare is former British premier Gordon Brown’s sister-in-law. Gordon wrote a piece for The Independent about her environmental efforts on behalf of Sarawak, which he calls, “[the] biggest environmental crime of our times.” [4].
Clare is openly critical of current Chief Minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib, which has garnered her both positive and negative public attention, specifically when she recently came forward as the voice behind both Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak [5]. Pakatan Rakyat views Clare as a valuable political asset for a possible upcoming campaign run. Meanwhile, Sarawak Reports has pointed out that she commonly misstates facts about the amount of remaining rainforest in Sarawak. [6], which has caused some to question whether her and her brother-in-law are merely running a campaign effort rather than an environmental support effort.[7].
According to this report[8]., Clare Rewcastle Brown claims that less than 3% of Sarawak’s rainforests remain, while Chief Minister Taib simultaneously claims that 70% remain.
Beyond her political and environmental connections, Clare Brown was involved in a 2009 scandal when former Prime Minister Gordan Brown came under scrutiny for using taxpayer money to pay his own family to manage his housekeeping. Clare Brown and her husband were the recipients of this money, and her statement of the pair merely keeping “a bit of an eye on him on the domestic front” upset questioning taxpayers.[9] However, Clare defends the arrangement, explaining that the claims were groundless and calling the publicity of the matter “pretty damn unfair.” [10]
References
- ^ "Mystery Figures Behind Sarawak Report & Radio Free Sarawak Reveal". BINTULU. accessdate= 2011-02-27.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "Anti-Taib website, radio run by ex-PM Brown's sis-in-law". Malaysiakini. accessdate= 2011-02-27.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "Mystery Figures Behind Sarawak Report & Radio Free Sarawak Reveal". BINTULU. accessdate= 2011-02-27.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "Fight for the Borneo rainforest: Gordon Brown celebrates the role of journalist Clare Rewcastle". The Independent. accessdate= 2011-03-13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "Clare Rewcastle Brown: if we Freeze Billion In Taib's Assets for his terrorism and Rainforest robbery". Malaysiakita. accessdate= 2011-03-13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "Clare Rewcastle Brown's Bluff is Called". New Ledger. accessdate= 2011-03-26.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "Beware of Strange Bedfellows: The Curious Case of Gordon Brown, his Sister-in-Law, and the Rainforests of Exotic Borneo". Sarawak Reports. accessdate= 2011-03-29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "Beware of Strange Bedfellows: The Curious Case of Gordon Brown, his Sister-in-Law, and the Rainforests of Exotic Borneo". Sarawak Reports. accessdate= 2011-03-29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "Beware of Strange Bedfellows: The Curious Case of Gordon Brown, his Sister-in-Law, and the Rainforests of Exotic Borneo". Sarawak Reports. accessdate= 2011-03-29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing pipe in:|date=(help) - ^ "The Naiveté of Clare Rewcastle Brown". Sarawak Reports. accessdate= 2011-03-29.
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