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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.

Bob Brown

Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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Gold Humanity Oil Renewable Resources
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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Age Billion News Voters
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Action Democracy Earth
Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
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Being Humanity Psychological Resonate Well Yet
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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Bang People Years
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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Flower Forests Wall
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
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Age Earth Past Resulting Together
$Bob Brown Quote - With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.$

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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Children Dollar Money Sunken War
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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Mets Persons Reflected
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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Community Democracy Depth
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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Difficult Kids Thinking
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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Endurance Google Records
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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Ambition Champion Economics
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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Environmental People Positive
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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Future Gun Life Real Security
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.
BOB BROWN

Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania

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