Occupation: Australian Senator Birth: December 27, 1944
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, l….
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resu….
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..
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for ….
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected..
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 amongs….
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by ….
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 elect….
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after..
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't..
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fash….
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 o….
I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy..
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now..
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament..
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..
The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet..
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exch….
The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases..