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The Australian Greens (AG), commonly referred to simply as the Greens, are a confederation of green state and territory political parties in Australia. [13] As of the 2022 federal election, the Greens are the third largest political party in Australia by vote and the fourth-largest by elected representation.
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 Australian Greens is an Australian political party. It is a confederation, with a national organisation comprising a member body in each state and territory, as follows: [1] Greens New South Wales; Australian Greens Victoria; Queensland Greens; Greens Western Australia; Greens South Australia; Tasmanian Greens; ACT Greens; Northern ...
Western Australian Legislative Council: South Metropolitan: 22 May 1993 26 January 2005 11 years, 249 days Dee Margetts [b] (1955– ) Australian Senate: Western Australia: 1 July 1993 30 June 1999 5 years, 364 days 9 years, 363 days Western Australian Legislative Council: Agricultural: 22 May 2001 21 May 2005 3 years, 364 days Lucy Horodny ...
On Monday 28 November 2005, Bob Brown – who had long been regarded as de facto leader by many inside the party, and most people outside the party – was elected unopposed as the Parliamentary Party Leader. [1] Most of the Green parties which have joined the Australian Greens do not have a formal leader, and instead they have a shared ...
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 ...
Following the news that Queen Elizabeth II had died, Faruqi, deputy leader of the Australian Greens party, posted: “I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonized peoples.”
At a party conference in Hobart, the Greens announced their intention to formalise their party's structure in anticipation of a growing presence in Federal Parliament. Tasmanian Senator Bob Brown was elected leader unopposed, with Western Australian Senator Rachel Siewert appointed the party's first Whip .