Passionate Politics: A History of the Greens in WA by Shaun Salmon has just been launched by UWA Publishing.
As the publisher’s blurb promises, the book takes you behind the scenes through seventy interviews with key founders and members of the Greens in WA and explains how a merger of four progressive groups campaigning against nuclear energy, for the environment, for the south west forests and on social justice issues came about to form the Greens (WA) on 1 January 1990.
This then led to the first Greens Senator in Australia and the pursuit of radical political change in a State ‘preoccupied by digging things up and chopping them down!’
The book lets you follow candidates and volunteers on the campaign trail; members as they negotiate grassroots decision-making and a growing party structure; and parliamentarians sharing their challenges and successes.
You’ll find the book in good bookstores and can also order it online from UWA Publishing.
L-R Chilla Bulbeck, Brad Pettitt, Jo Vallentine.
Our Editor, Michael Barker, was pleased to sit down with Jo Vallentine, Chilla Bulbeck and Brad Pettitt to make the podcast you’ll find below, where we discuss the book, its origins and scope, as well as a range of issues facing Green politics in WA and beyond nearly 37 years after the Greens (WA) were formed. It’s an highly informed discussion inspired by an illuminating book!
And here’s the quilt mentioned by Jo Vallentine in the podcast that now hangs in the Greens (WA) Perth headquarters.
By Michael Barker, Editor, Fremantle Shipping News
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Here’s the PODCAST. Enjoy!
