How Tasmania’s anti-protest laws drove Bob Brown back to frontline activism
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This isn’t what Bob Brown had planned. At 78, the man who launched the Australian Greens and whose decades of activism remain a lodestar for much of the country’s conservation movement had imagined a shifting focus in the final act of his life.
He would spend more time writing, at home south of Hobart with longtime partner, Paul Thomas, and less on the campaign frontline. Retirement was not on the agenda but a decade after leaving politics and creating the activist group the Bob Brown Foundation he had started the transition, resigning from the organisation’s board and taking a more backseat role as its patron.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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