Gabriel George Haros (born 9 February 1944) is a former Australian politician and the founder of the PundaZoie Company a globally acknowledged company delivering th
Greening the Desert
Program – commercial solutions for

sustainable agriculture Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs. It can be based on an understanding of ecosystem ser ...

, climate change and global food security.. Gabriel was born in

Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...

, commenced his working life as a journalist with the Hobart Mercury and as a specialist court reporter with the Melbourne Herald, graduating from the

University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College, one of the university's residential colleges, first pro ...

in 1973 and co-founding the Hobart law firm Haros Wallace and Meade in 1976. In 1980 he was elected to the

Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ...

as a

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member for Denison. He served as Deputy Chair of Committees for a period, Chairman of the Standing Committee for Subordinate Legislation and Printing, Liberal Shadow Minister for Tourism, Environment, Racing & Gaming, Ethnic and Aboriginal Affairs and the Arts. In 2002 Haros formed the PundaZoie Company (PundaZoie being Greek for everlasting life) creating th
Greening the Desert
Program with its flagship project being the partnership with th
Scotdesco Aboriginal Community
at Bookabie, nea
Ceduna on the Eyre Peninsular
of South Australia which was visited by th
Prime Minister of Australia
the Hon

Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. Turnbull grad ...

MP and members of both the South Australian and Federal Government in October 2016. Haros co-authored of a number of research papers in relation to regenerative agricultural solutions as a result of his company’s partnership with the University of Tasmania by way of an ARC Linkage Grant commencing in 2010. (see reference list below for paper details) In November 2016, the PundaZoie Company bid successfully for the largest soil organic carbon (SOC) contractArticle http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/Infohub/Media-Centre/Pages/Resources/ERF%20media%20resources/Millions-of-tonnes-of-carbon-emissions-to-be-stored-in-carbon.aspx under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) for the supply of 7.5 million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Clean Energy Regulator (CER).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haros, Gabriel 1944 births Living people Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly University of Tasmania alumni