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Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Show
Morning Magazine,
Presenter
Meri Fatin
Published
Thursday 19th August

The Prospect of the greens holding the balance of power in the Senate by mid next year is one that – for some voters – takes the sting out of the tail of having no preferred party on the lower house.

Its an amazing journey for the first “green party” in the world – that grew out of environment movements in the 70’s and 80’s – a party that used to be referred to as “the fairies at the bottom of the garden”.

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert spoke to Meri Fatin.