Editing Australian Greens (section)

=== Formation ===
[[File:Sydney-Greens-Glebe-061085.jpg|right|thumb|[[The Greens NSW|Sydney Greens]] in the 1980s, the first political party in Australia to use the label Green.]]
The origins of the Australian Greens can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the [[United Tasmania Group]], one of the first [[Green party|green parties]] in the world,<ref name="Global Greens-2011"/> but also the [[nuclear disarmament]] movement in Western Australia and sections of the industrial left in New South Wales who were inspired by the [[Builders Labourers Federation]] [[Green ban]]s in Sydney.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Greenland |first1=Hall |title=Inconvenient truths about the Greens |url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/inconvenient-truths-about-greens |access-date=8 October 2020 |work=Green Left |date=27 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Co-ordination between environmentalist groups occurred in the 1980s with various significant protests. Key people involved in these campaigns included [[Bob Brown]] and [[Christine Milne]], who went on to contest and win seats in the [[Parliament of Tasmania]] and eventually form the [[Tasmanian Greens]]. Both Brown and Milne subsequently became leaders of the federal party.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Green%20Politics.htm|title=Green Politics|access-date=2024-09-24|publisher=[[University of Tasmania]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Au Parliament|mpid=KA5|name=Former Senator Christine Milne|access-date=2022-08-01}}</ref> 

The formation of the federal party in 1992 brought together over a dozen green groups, from state and local organisations, some of which had existed for 20 years.<ref name="The Monthly-2012"/> Following the formation of the national party in 1992, regional emphasis variations remained within the Greens, with members of the "industrial left" remaining a presence in the New South Wales branch.<ref name="The Monthly-2012"/> Brown resigned from the Tasmanian Parliament in 1993, and in 1996 he was elected as a senator for Tasmania, the first elected as an Australian Greens candidate.<ref>{{cite Tas Parliament |id=brownr646 |title=Robert James (Bob) Brown |access-date=25 August 2022}}</ref>

Initially, the most successful Greens group during this period was [[Greens Western Australia|The Greens (WA)]], which was still a separate organisation from the Australian Greens at the time. Vallentine was succeeded by [[Christabel Chamarette]] in 1992, and she was joined by [[Dee Margetts]] in 1993. However, Chamarette was defeated in the [[1996 Australian federal election|1996 federal election]]. Margetts lost her seat in the [[1998 Australian federal election|1998 federal election]], leaving Brown as the sole Australian Greens senator.