Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
BOB BROWNFor comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
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Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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