The Australian Greens (AG),commonly referred to simply as the Greens,are a confederation of green state and territory political parties in Australia. 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 leader of the party is Adam Bandt,with Mehreen Faruqi serving as deputy leader. Larissa Waters currently holds the role of Senate leader.
Robert James Brown is an Australian former politician,medical doctor and environmentalist. He was a senator and the parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket,joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election. He was re-elected in 2001 and in 2007. He was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia and the first openly gay leader of an Australian political party.
The Tasmanian Greens are a political party in Australia which developed from numerous environmental campaigns in Tasmania,including the flooding of Lake Pedder and the Franklin Dam campaign. They form a part of the Australian Greens.
Eric Abetz is an Australian politician. He was a Senator for Tasmania from 1994 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party,and since March 2024 has been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Franklin electorate.
Antonio "Tony" Zappia is an Australian politician and former powerlifting champion. He has been an Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Makin in South Australia since the 2007 election.
Christine Anne Milne is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania. She was the leader of the parliamentary caucus of the Australian Greens from 2012 to 2015. Milne stepped down as leader on 6 May 2015,replaced by Richard Di Natale.
Nicholas James McKim is an Australian politician,currently a member of the Australian Senate representing Tasmania. He was previously a Tasmanian Greens member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly elected at the 2002 election,representing the Franklin electorate from 2002 to 2015,and led the party from 2008 until 2014. On 21 April 2010,he became the first member of the Greens in any Australian ministry. From February 2020 until June 2022,he served as co-deputy leader of the Australian Greens.
Lee Rhiannon is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales between July 2011 and August 2018. She was elected at the 2010 federal election,representing the Australian Greens. Prior to her election to the Federal Parliament,Rhiannon was a Greens NSW member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1999 and 2010.
Robert John Bell was an Australian schoolteacher,politician and conservationist. He served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1990 to 1996,representing the Australian Democrats. He was the party's last elected official in Tasmania.
Jacqueline Anne Petrusma is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 2010 to 2022,representing the electorate of Franklin,and served as a minister in the governments of Will Hodgman,Peter Gutwein and Jeremy Rockliff.
Penelope Lesley Wright is an Australian activist and former politician who is South Australia's Guardian for Children and Young People in Care.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate between 2011 and 2014. Half of the state senators had been elected at the November 2007 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2014;the other half of the state senators were elected at the August 2010 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2017. The territory senators were elected at the August 2010 election and their terms ended at the next federal election,which was September 2013. The new Senate first met in July 2011,with state senators elected in 2010 sworn in on 4 July 2011.
David Martin Shoebridge is an Australian politician and former barrister. He is a member of the Australian Greens and was elected to the Senate as the party's lead candidate in New South Wales at the 2022 federal election,to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. He previously served in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2010 to 2022 and on the Woollahra Municipal Council from 2004 to 2012.
The WikiLeaks Party was a minor libertarian political party in Australia between 2013 and 2015. The party was created in part to support Julian Assange's failed bid for a Senate seat in Australia in the 2013 election. The party won 0.62% of the national vote. At the time Assange was seeking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The WikiLeaks Party national council included Assange,Matt Watt,Gail Malone,Assange's biological father John Shipton,Omar Todd and Gerry Georgatos.
Jonathon Roy Duniam is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has served as a Senator for Tasmania since the 2016 federal election. He served as an assistant minister in the Morrison government from 2019 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Prior to entering parliament Duniam was a political staffer,including as deputy chief of staff to Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman.
Jordon Alexander Steele-John is a British-born Australian politician and disability rights advocate. He is a member of the Australian Senate as a representative of Western Australia,and is a member of the Australian Greens.
Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Aboriginal Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023,when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament,and became a key figure in the "progressive No" campaign for the Voice referendum in October 2023. Thorpe served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.
Geelong Star was a former name of the 3,181 GT super-trawler and factory ship Dirk-Dirk,built in 1983 at Harlingen,Netherlands for the Dutch fishing company Parlevliet &van der Plas of Katwijk. In 2015–2016 Hobart Star was involved in political controversy and faced protests from those opposed to the use of super-trawlers in Australian fisheries.
The Australian Greens held a number of leadership elections and deputy leadership elections. The most recent was held in 2022.
Alexander Charles Antic is an Australian politician who has been a senator for South Australia since 2019 representing the Liberal Party.
