Glenn Druery is an Australian ultra distance cyclist and a world-class long distance athlete.
Druery has competed in the Race Across America (RAAM) three times, in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In 2009 his four-man team, Team RANS, won the epic 5000 km event in 6 days 3 hours and 40 minutes.[1]
In 2003 and 2007 Glenn participated in the 1200 km Paris–Brest–Paris (PBP).
In 1996 Druery was instrumental in the formation of the Outdoor Recreation Party, a group Malcolm Jones would later commandeer.
Druery pioneered, in 1999, the practice of "preference harvesting” at the NSW general election, and was the brains behind the "Tablecloth ballot paper". In a number of meetings he organised and chaired , Druery diplomatically persuaded the Independents and the Minor parties to adhere to his innovative preference-swapping arrangements. Three members of minor parties were subsequently elected to the Legislative Council.
The Government and Opposition parties later passed legislation to make it difficult for Independents, small parties and minority groups to enter the NSW Upper House.
Druery has been a candidate in several elections. He ran for the New South Wales Legislative Council in the 1999 state election; as a liberals for forests candidate for the Senate in the 2004 federal election; and as a Liberal Democrats candidate for the Senate in the 2010 federal election.[2]
In 2004 he came within 2,500 votes of being elected through favourable preference deals. In 2010 he also came very close and was similarly the last candidate eliminated in the count.