The Australian Greens,commonly known as The Greens,are a confederation of Green state and territory political parties in Australia. As of the 2019 federal election,the Greens are currently the third largest political party in Australia by vote. The leader of the party is Adam Bandt,and the party's co-deputy leaders are Larissa Waters and Nick McKim.
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.
Greens Western Australia,commonly known as the Greens WA,is a member party of the Australian Greens in Western Australia. The Greens (WA) was formed following the merger of the Western Australian Green Party with the Green Earth Alliance composed of the Vallentine Peace Group and Alternative Coalition in 1990. The Party became officially affiliated with the Australian Greens in 2003.
The Australian Greens Victoria,commonly known as the Victorian Greens or just as The Greens,is the Victorian state member party of the Australian Greens,a green political party in Australia.
Patrick Lionel Djargun Dodson is an Australian politician representing Western Australia in the Australian Senate. He is a Yawuru elder from Broome,Western Australia. He has been chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation,a Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody,and a Roman Catholic priest. He was the winner of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize and the 2009 John Curtin Medallist. His brother is Mick Dodson,also a national Indigenous Australian leader.
Jean Alice Jenkins is an Australian educator in languages and served as an Australian Democrats senator for Western Australia from 1987 to 1990. She is also noted as an originator in Western Australia of NAATI-accredited level 2 (paraprofessional) courses in translation and interpreting,and as a campaigner for human rights and preservation of built heritage. She has been a patron of the Art Deco Society of Western Australia since 1989.
Sarah Coral Hanson-Young is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since July 2008,representing the Australian Greens. She is the youngest woman to be elected to federal parliament,winning election at the age of 25 and taking office at the age of 26. She was the youngest person ever elected to the Senate,until Jordon Steele-John was elected on a recount in 2017.
Scott Ludlam is a New Zealand-born Australian former politician. A member of the Australian Greens,he was a senator in the Australian Senate from July 2008 to July 2017 and served as deputy leader of the Greens. Ludlam represented the state of Western Australia and resigned when it was found that he had been ineligible to sit in the Senate due to holding dual citizenship of New Zealand and Australia.
Adam Paul Bandt is an Australian politician and former industrial lawyer who is the leader of the Australian Greens and federal MP for Melbourne. Previously,he served as co-deputy leader of the Greens from 2012 to 2015 and 2017 to 2020. He was elected leader after the resignation of Richard Di Natale in February 2020.
Larissa Joy Waters is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Greens and has served as a Senator for Queensland since 2018. She previously served in the Senate from 2011 to 2017,resigning during the parliamentary eligibility crisis due to her holding Canadian citizenship in violation of Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia. Waters serves as her party's Senate leader,in office since February 2020,and has been a co-deputy leader since December 2018. She previously held the latter position from May 2015 to July 2017.
Dean Anthony Smith is an Australian politician and Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since 2012,representing Western Australia.
Janet Elizabeth Rice is an Australian politician,member of the Australian Greens,former councillor and mayor of Maribyrnong,environmentalist,facilitator and one of the founding members of the Victorian Greens.
Anthony David Chisholm is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Queensland since 2016. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and previously served as the party's state secretary from 2008 to 2014.
Jordon Alexander Steele-John is an 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 party.
The Australian Greens have had four federal leadership elections in their history. On each occasion,a single candidate was elected unopposed.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2019 Australian federal election held on 18 May 2019. Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states began on 1 July 2019. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election,18 May 2019.
The Australian Greens Shadow Ministry consists of all Greens members of Parliament serving as the party's Shadow Ministry inside Parliament on various issues,each member being assigned shadow ministries for their speaking duties. This allows the Greens to shadow government policies and actions from the party perspective.
The history of the Australian Greens has its origins in the Green parties founded in the 1980s in the each of the states of Australia.
Juukan Gorge is a gorge in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia,about 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Mt Tom Price. It was named by the daughter of Puutu Kunti Kurrama man Juukan,also known as Tommy Ashburton,who was born at Jukarinya.
Dorinda Rose Cox is an Australian politician. In 2020 she won preselection as the Australian Greens' lead Senate candidate in Western Australia,and the following year she was appointed to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Rachel Siewert.
