The Greens co-founder did not maintain again in a far-reaching interview with Crikey, weighing in on the hazard of AUKUS, his admiration for Extinction Revolt activists, and Lidia Thorpe’s Mardi Gras protest.
He’s carried out time in jail for his outlandish model of environmental activism, publicly heckled the president of the USA over our troops in Iraq, and got here out as the primary overtly homosexual politician some 20 years earlier than it was authorized in his dwelling state of Tasmania. But the one factor that continues to canine Australia’s environmental forefather Bob Brown is the CPRS veto.
The Carbon Air pollution Discount Scheme, or CPRS, was entrance of thoughts for a lot of when Brown’s successor Adam Bandt dug in his heels concerning the crown jewel in Labor’s local weather coverage — the safeguard mechanism — in February. The Greens chief declared his get together would solely help amendments to the Coalition-era coverage, which forces firms to slash emissions or cough up a positive, if Prime Minister Anthony Albanese swore there’d be no extra coal and gasoline tasks.
After some invaluable publicity, Bandt later revised the place to a request, not a dealbreaker, with the laws handed by way of the Senate after the Greens received some concessions from the federal government. However that didn’t cease many — resembling former head of the Division of Local weather Change and Vitality Effectivity Blair Comley and Local weather and Vitality Minister Chris Bowen — from drawing the false equivalence to Brown’s Greens voting down the CPRS in 2009.
Learn extra from this interview with Greens co-founder Bob Brown.
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