Agency:
Tasmanian Greens
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Aug 1992
Description:
The Tasmanian Greens is a political party which evolved from green groups that formed in the 1960s. The United Tasmania Group was the first green political party to be formed in the world and began at a meeting in 1972 at the Hobart Town Hall. The UTG lasted for five years, and was briefly reformed in 1990 for the Federal election that year. ;;Norm Sanders was elected to State Parliament in 1980 for the Australian Democrats and is considered the first "green" MP in Australia. The former director of the then Tasmanian Wilderness Society, Dr Bob Brown, was elected by recount as a Green Independent member when Sanders resigned in late 1982. In the following State election in 1986 two Green Independents were elected. ;;In August 1992 the Green Independents moved to form the Party on an official basis and the name 'Green Independents' while still recognised in the Party constitution was progressively replaced by 'Tasmanian Greens'. Dr Brown resigned from State Parliament in 1993 and his seat was taken by Peg Putt while the leadership passed to Christine Milne. ;;In 1998 the number of candidates who could be elected to the House of Assembly was reduced from thirty-five to twenty-five. After the election on the reduced numbers, the leader of the Tasmanian Greens, Christine Milne, and Di Hollister and Michael Foley all lost their seats, leaving Peg Putt as the sole Greens member. ;;The Greens first stood Local Government candidates in 1999, with Paul Thomas (Huon Valley) and Deidre Wilson (Clarence City) becoming the first endorsed Greens councillors in Tasmania.;;In the 2002 Tasmanian State elections four Greens candidates were elected to the House of Assembly, Party leader Peg Putt in Denison, Nick McKim in Franklin, Tim Morris in Lyons and Kim Booth in Bass.;;As at 2022, the Tasmanian Greens were represented in the Federal Senate by Senators Nick McKim and Peter Whish-Wilson. At a State Level Cassy O'Connor was the Leader of the Tasmanian Greens, with Dr Rosalie Woodruff as Green's Whip.
Information Sources:
Tasmanian Greens website, 2022.
Related Agencies:
Arnold Rowlands (NG2167) | 17 Apr 1925 | 01 Oct 2009 |
Dr. Bob Brown (NG2029) | 27 Dec 1944 |
Michael Foley (NG2221) | 03 Dec 1946 |
Dianne (Di) Hollister (NG2223) | 09 Dec 1947 |
Gerry Bates (NG2222) | 13 Sep 1950 |
Christine Milne (NG2211) | 14 May 1953 |
Margaret (Peg) Anne Putt (NG2437) | 05 Jun 1953 |
Joan Staples (NG2127) | 01 Jan 1960 |
The South-West Committee (NG3050) | 12 Nov 1962 | 31 Dec 1973 |
United Tasmania Group (NG2412) | 23 Mar 1972 | 31 Dec 1979 |
The Wilderness Society (Tasmania Inc) (NG2155) | 01 Jan 1976 |
Parliamentary Office of the Greens Party (NG1932) | 01 Jan 1978 |
Paul Thomas (NG2359) | 01 Jan 1980 |
Series Created By Agency:
NS7211 Wesley Vale Pulp Mill Campaign | 01 Jan 1961 | 31 Dec 1997 |
NS7082 Reference Library | 01 Jan 1963 | 31 Dec 2013 |
NS3837 Documents relating to the History, Constitutional and Organisational Arrangements of the Party | 01 Jan 1972 | 31 Dec 2003 |
NS3846 Membership | 01 Jan 1972 | 01 Jan 2011 |
NS3854 Newsletters | 01 Apr 1972 | 01 Jan 2018 |
NS3845 Papers of State Council and State Conferences | 01 Jan 1974 | 01 Aug 2012 |
NS3855 Promotional Material - Stickers, Badges and Banners | 01 Jan 1980 | 31 Dec 2020 |
NS3859 Audio Recordings | 01 Jan 1981 | 31 Dec 2006 |
NS3848 Documentation of Election Campaigns | 01 Jan 1986 | 31 Dec 2019 |
NS3234 Devonport Office - Subject Files | 01 Jan 1987 | 31 Dec 1998 |
NS3858 Audio Visual Material | 01 Jan 1987 | 31 Dec 2010 |
NS4051 Subject Folders | 01 Jan 1987 | 31 Dec 1998 |
NS7216 Press Releases (Media Releases) | 01 Jan 1988 | 01 May 2019 |
NS3844 Minutes and associated Papers of Tasmanian Greens Pty Ltd Board (Previously Goshawk Group Pty Ltd) | 01 Jan 1989 | 31 Dec 2000 |
NS3849 Records relating to Policies, Platforms, Constitution and History of the Greens in Tasmania | 01 Jan 1989 | 31 Dec 2003 |
NS3852 Bass Greens - Documentation of the Work of Green Members of Parliament | 01 Jan 1989 | 31 Dec 1998 |
NS3856 Newspaper Clipping Books | 01 Jan 1989 | 31 Dec 2006 |
NS4540 Promotional Material - Printed | 01 Jan 1989 | 31 Dec 2016 |
NS7085 Media Releases | 01 Jan 1989 | 31 Dec 1998 |
NS7107 Documents on Various Issues addressed by the Green Party | 01 Jan 1989 | 31 Dec 2012 |
NS3853 Daily Planet [Publication] | 01 Aug 1989 | 30 Nov 2003 |
NS3843 Branch Files | 01 Jan 1990 | 31 Dec 2011 |
NS6214 Franklin Greens Records | 01 Jan 1990 | 31 Dec 2019 |
NS3842 Minutes, Agendas and associated Papers of the Executive of the Tasmanian Greens | 01 Jan 1991 | 31 Dec 2007 |
NS3860 Photographs | 01 Jan 1995 | 31 Dec 2008 |
NS4056 Peg Putt Parliamentarian Papers | 01 Jan 1995 | 31 Dec 2001 |
NS7084 Diaries | 01 Jan 2000 | 01 Jan 2000 |
NS7213 Greens Shop Administration Records | 01 Jan 2003 | 31 Dec 2017 |