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Greens leader Adam Bandt held his first campaign event with the party’s housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather this week.

Bandt’s leadership in spotlight amid $7m right-wing assault on Greens

The Greens leader is campaigning to hold the party’s three Brisbane seats after it suffered a disappointing result in last year’s Queensland state election.

  • Paul Sakkal and William Davis

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Getting ahead with leadership.

Modern Labor is losing the battle of ideas

Whatever their faults, former PMs Turnbull, Abbott and Keating were all driven to change things.

Speaking for the trees: Samantha Ratnam (left), Bob Brown and Sonya Semmens.

Back to basics – and familiar faces – as Greens eye balance of power

The minor party will issue a list of key demands of minority government ahead of the federal election. This is one of them.

  • Bianca Hall
Federal Greens leader Adam Bandt, state MP for Maiwar, Michael Berkman, and federal MP for Griffith, Max Chandler-Mather, at a press conference in New Farm.

‘Be self-critical’: Greens urged to take hard look at disappointing election result

Despite being swept from power in Queensland, Labor has seized upon the state election results to claim the party can reclaim inner-city seats from the Greens.

  • Matthew Knott and Paul Sakkal
Former Greens leader Bob Brown and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Labor says the Greens aren’t Bob Brown’s party any more. He disagrees

“[The Greens] don’t talk about the environment any more,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says. “They talk about some extreme agenda.”

  • Paul Sakkal
Forestry Corporation contractors assaulted forest activist Mark Graham.

‘I don’t like to lose’: Giant-killer Geoff Cousins declares war on controversial NSW industry

The man who stopped the Gunns pulp factory is turning his attention to this state’s hardwood forests.

  • Nick O'Malley
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Mona forestry congress. Kirsha Kaechele. Photo Supplied (For Nick O’Malley)

How wife of Mona founder brought together combatants of Tasmania’s forest wars

Curator and artist Kirsha Kaechele has organised a forestry congress at the Museum of Old and New Art, with unlikely guests including loggers, activists and scientists.

  • Nick O'Malley
Wind turbines.

Projects hijacked by ‘political actors like Peter Dutton suddenly pretending to care about whales’

Consultations about possible wind farm developments have just begun, but already misinformation is flooding social media.

  • Nick O'Malley

Fewer imbeciles, more washing up: Bob Brown and his partner’s post-politics life

The one-time Greens leader had resigned himself to eternal bachelorhood. Then an easy friendship with sheep farmer Paul Thomas grew into something more.

  • Tim Elliott
The Giants is a satisfying and galvanising portrait of former Greens leader and campaigner Bob Brown.

This eye-opening portrait of Bob Brown will stun and delight you

Ravishing documentary The Giants mixes animation and wilderness to tell the inspirational story of the former Greens leader.

  • Paul Byrnes

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