Bob Brown
‘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
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- Political leadership
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
‘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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- Environmental protection
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
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
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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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- Climate policy
‘All or nothing’ is not the right approach to climate policy, campaigner tells Bandt
Geoff Cousins, a longstanding environmental campaigner and friend of Bob Brown, has urged Adam Bandt to vote with Labor on the safeguard mechanism.
- David Crowe
Ex-Greens leader says Labor to blame if climate reform falters over coal, gas
Christine Milne, who helped block the 2009 emissions trading scheme, says it’s up to the government to deliver a climate plan that can pass parliament.
- Mike Foley
Bob Brown quits conservation group after it urged Greens to back Labor
The Greens founder has accused the Australian Conservation Foundation of being a Labor-backed lobby group.
- Mike Foley
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