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

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

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.

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

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 fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!

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