Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

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.

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.