Green party politics began in Australia in March 1972, when the United Tasmania Group was formed at a public meeting in Hobart town hall. Two months later, at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand’s Values Party was born. But the term “Green” was not coined until the German Greens contested their first national election in 1980. Since then, the Greens have spread across the world. In Europe, more than ten million people now vote Green, and the European Parliament’s 626 members include 46 Greens.
Australia
Australian Greens
Founded: August 1992
0/148 MPs; 1/76 senators
www.greens.org.au
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