Can any of our associates from Oz tell us more about this guy,
and how serious are his plans and/or chances?

From 'Novosti Kosmonavtiki' (News of Cosmonautics) page, news by Aleksandr Zheleznyakov,
July 21, 00:02 Moscow Time -- Yet Another Candidate for Tourism in Space --

"The well-known Australian writer Bradley Trevor Grieve has announced his intention to make a space flight aboard a Russian Soyuz. According to data from the internet-news agency strana.ru, Grieve has already performed training in Star City and hopes to be included in the crew of Soyuz TMA-7, the start of which is planned for October 2005."

JimO adds: A long interview with him, in Russian, is at http://www.strana.ru/stories/03/06/25/3355/221566.html