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Sydney Greens in the 1980s, the first political party in Australia to use the label Green.. The origins of the Australian Greens can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the United Tasmania Group, one of the first green parties in the world, [18] but also the nuclear disarmament movement in Western Australia and sections of the industrial left in New ...
The Australian Greens Victoria was formed in 1992, as a response to the formation of the Australian Greens which united pre-existing Green parties in Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT. The first election the Greens contested in Victoria was the 1993 federal election where the party contested the seat of La Trobe.
The Green movement gained its first federal parliamentary representative when Senator Jo Vallentine of Western Australia, who had been elected in 1984 for the Nuclear Disarmament Party and later sat as an independent, was part of the formation of and joined The Greens (WA), a party formed in Western Australia, and not affiliated to the ...
The Greens NSW, also known as the NSW Greens, is a green political party in New South Wales and a member of the Australian Greens.First formed in 1991, the Greens NSW began as a state-level party before joining with other green parties in Australia to create the current federated structure.
The Queensland Greens is a Green party in Queensland, Australia, and a state member of the Australian Greens.The party is currently represented in all three levels of government, by Larissa Waters and Penny Allman-Payne in the federal Senate; Stephen Bates, Max Chandler-Mather, and Elizabeth Watson-Brown in the House of Representatives; Michael Berkman in the state Legislative Assembly; and ...
Bob Brown (Australia; former leader of the Australian Greens and Senator 1996–2012) Martin Bursík (The Czech Republic; former leader of the Czech Green Party and Minister of the Environment) Peter Camejo (USA; three-time Green Californian gubernatorial candidate and independent vice-presidential candidate 2004)
The Global Greens Charter is a document that 800 delegates from the Green parties of 72 countries decided upon a first gathering of the Global Greens in Canberra, Australia in April 2001. [1] The first part contains six guiding principles, whereas the second part specifies what political action should be taken.
The Greens (WA) is a member party of the Australian Greens in Western Australia. The Greens (WA) was formed following the merger of the Western Australian Green Party with the Green Earth Alliance composed of the Vallentine Peace Group and Alternative Coalition in 1990. The Party became officially affiliated with the Australian Greens in 2003.