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

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

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 optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

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, let alone our own species, then who can?

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.