User:Catiline52/History of the Australian Greens

Pre-federation

 * History of different Green parties forming in different parts.

New South Wales

 * Focus on forming local groups, with their own AEC registered parties, no state-wide Greens party (except for the senate).
 * Sydney Greens, Central Coast Greens, Cowper Greens, Eastern Suburb Greens, Greens in Lowe, South Sydney Greens, Western Suburb Greens. (These are the ones I can find registered in 1990 + 1993)

Tasmania

 * United Tasmania Group

Western Australia

 * Nuclear Disarmament party, etc.

Federation

 * Local Green parties
 * Tensions between de-centralists and centralist groups.
 * Whether the local branches hold power, or the federal caucus
 * Whether the Greens should have a leader

Leadership of Bob Brown

 * Australian Greens gets a leader for the first time.

2010 federal election onward

 * 2011 hung government, federal Labor-Green alliance.
 * NSW BDDS support.

NSW Greens Dispute

 * Dispute over centralism vs de-centralists. (NSW Greens specific issue, but had huge impact on Australian Greens)
 * Formation of Left Renewal
 * Lee Rhiannon voting in accordance with Greens NSW decision, which was opposed to Australian Greens decision.
 * Lee Rhiannon resigns, replaced
 * Tensions over centralists vs de-centralists grows, Buckingham (de-centralist) splits, Bob Brown encourages centralists to split from party together.