Senator Christine Milne
Senator Christine Milne
Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens
Senator Christine Milne, Australian Greens spokesperson on climate change, was elected to represent Tasmania in the federal parliament at the 2004 election after a distinguished career in the Tasmanian state parliament where she served as Leader of the Tasmanian Greens from 1993-1998. Until recently, Christine was one of four Global Vice-Presidents of the International Union for the Conservation for Nature and represented the IUCN at the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention at Montreal in 2005, Nairobi in 2006 and at Bali in 2007.
Christine is a leader in the environment movement in Australia and overseas. She was appointed to the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1990 and in 2003 The Bulletin magazine named her one of Australia’s Smart 100. In November 2008 Christine was elected as Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens.
