Christine Milne

Christine Milne is a lifelong environmental advocate, born and raised on the northwest coast of Tasmania. Her advocacy has mainly taken place through politics, but in association with many campaigns and NGOs. Christine became the first woman to lead a political party in Tasmania in 1993, and went on to become the first woman to lead the Australian Greens in Australia’s national Parliament between 2012 - 2015. 

Based in the beautiful island state of Tasmania, where I grew up, I have worked for decades to protect some of the world’s great wild places, beautiful and inspiring places like Tasmania’s Franklin River, its World Heritage forests and New Caledonia’s coral reefs, but when I was appointed to Australia’s first ever Greenhouse Gas Council in 1990 I realised that it is not enough to secure nature and ecosystems in protected areas - global warming knows no boundaries.

We are now living in a climate emergency and the planet is facing its sixth wave of mass extinctions. All of us need to act whenever and wherever we can. It’s up to everyone to save Earth, our home.

That’s why I have dedicated my life to transforming the relationships people have with the planet and each other. It’s also why I work so hard at changing the economic tools and political frameworks that govern those relationships so that they are socially just, ecologically sustainable and not warped by the power of corporations that refuse to change their business model.