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Title: Regulating the Greens: Federal Electoral Laws and the Emergence of Green Parties in the 1980S and 1990S (Research Note) (Essay)
Author : Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 278 KB

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I was one of a group of people who made the transition from Red to Green in 1984, leaving the Labor Party in inner Sydney to help set up Sydney Greens. This was one of a number of initiatives that would lay the foundation for the Australian Greens in the 1990s. I recently deposited papers with the State Library of New South Wales relating to this early, fractious period in the history of the Greens in Australia. They are currently being catalogued. Among these are documents relating to my 1985-91 role as Registered Officer (the official contact with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)), for the registered political party, 'The Greens'. This research note summarises what these documents reveal about the challenges faced by a new and complex political movement as it tried to adjust to the parallel development of federal political party regulation. Registering 'The Greens'