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Longtime leader’s resignation signals Australia’s Green Party new era in mandatory voting system | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles
Sydney (dpa) – The leader of the Australian Greens party, Senator Christine Milne, resigned Wednesday in a surprise announcement. Milne has been leader of the party since 2012. She was a key figure in an accord that allowed the Labor Party to govern with just one seat majority until the Liberals, who under Tony Abbott went…
Sydney (dpa) – The Australian Greens party elected a new leader Wednesday after the surprise departure of their previous head, Christine Milne. Milne, 61, announced earlier Wednesday that she was resigning and would not contest the 2016 election. Just hours afterwards, the 11 Greens in parliament elected as leader Richard Di Natale, a 44-year-old doctor from…
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