The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWNThere’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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We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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We are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
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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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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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Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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