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Unless they can negotiate outcomes that will hold and have sufficient leadership ability to keep their followers on course, the Greens cannot truly participate in mainstream politics.
--Michael Field, 2004
PROBABLY NO AUSTRALIAN knows or understands the Greens as a political party better than Michael Field, a former Labor premier of Tasmania. In the state election of May 1989, the Green Independents (then their name), led by Dr Bob Brown, won five of the thirty-five seats in the lower house. The incumbent Liberals got seventeen and Labor thirteen. Elated, the Green Independents started negotiations with both major parties for an alliance that would give ...