2002 - Pain and Pleasure in Politics
The 2002 Juanita Nielsen Memorial Lecture was given by Greens MP Christine Milne.
Christine Milne has a long involvement in community activism and politics, beginning with the Franklin River campaign. Then she led the successful campaign to protect Tasmania's farm lands from the impacts of the proposed Wesley Vale Pulp Mill in the late 1980s.
Christine represented the electorate of Lyons in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1989 to 1998 and was leader of the Tasmanian Greens Party from 1993 to 1998. She was elected to Federal Parliament in 2004 and joined the Greens Senate team on 1 July 2005. Senator Milne is a United Nations Global 500 Laureate and is a Vice-President of the World Conservation Union (IUCN)).
Sylvia Hale spoke about Juanita Nielsen and the green bans period of 1970s. At the time Sylvia was a Greens Councillor on Marrickville Council.
Trish Mullins chaired the 2002 lecture.
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