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    The document discusses how increasing environmental awareness in Australia during the 1970s-1980s influenced political parties and policies, with the formation of the first green party in Tasmania and environmental issues influencing the policies of both green and non-green parties. It also describes how figures like Bob Brown and the United Tasmania Group helped bring environmental policies into the mainstream in Tasmania through the 1980s.

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    3.1.

    5: The impact of
    increasing environmental
    awareness in Australia on the
    policies of political parties.
    Key skill… evaluate the foundation and role of environmental and
    political movements in changing relationships with outdoor
    environments
     Environmental movements becoming political movements
     Environmentally focussed political party formations and their
    What will we policies

    explore?  The influence of environmental awareness on policies of


    non-’green’ parties (Tasmania, Victoria and Australia)
     All from an historical perspective – generally 1970-1990
     “Green”
     Tending to refer to any idea, philosophy, political party or policy that
    has an environmental interests at it’s core.
    Key terms  Policies
     The positons that political parties take on particular issues
    (environmental ones in our case)
     Formal plans of management
     Australian politicians and governments are elected by Australian
    people on their ideals and political promises
     Environmental movements of the 1970’s raised the environmental
    Introduction awareness of all Australians, leading to these becoming political
    movements as members who had green and social policies gained
    the support of the public.
    The United Tasmania Group
     In Tasmania, the first environmentally focussed (“green”) political
    party in the world had its roots in the failures of Lake Pedder with the
    Increased formation of the United Tasmania Group (UTG) in 1972

    environmental  They contested unsuccessfully in state elections in the years following


    with policies challenging the idea that further industrialisation was
    awareness' the way forward for Tasmania
     Instead they promoted an ecological platform that 'was as much
    effect on concerned with society and the need for satisfying employment as it
    Tasmanian was with a wholesome and stimulating environment'.

    politics (1970’s-
    1980’s)

    http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Green%20Politics.htm
    Dr Bob Brown
    Increased (where have we heard this name before?)

    environmental  He was a part of the UTG; however, focussed his


    time on the Tasmanian Wilderness Society during
    awareness' the Franklin River conflict

    effect on  After his success with TWS’s campaign he ran and


    was elected to Tasmanian parliament as a voice of
    Tasmanian environmental awareness in 1983.

    politics (1970’s-  He was joined in the late 1980’s by 3 other like-


    minded independents, holding the balance of power
    1980’s) in a minority Labor government, forming the ‘Labor
    Green Accord’
    Increased
    environmental
    awareness'
    effect on Dr Bob Brown and the ‘green’ independents
     Within the Labor Green Accord, the independents successfully saw policy
    Tasmanian change including:
     successfully doubling the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in size,
    politics (1970’s- a temporary banning of logging in National Estate areas not already
    approved
    1980’s)  Introducing a limit on the state's woodchip export quota
     ending the attempts to build a pulp mill at Wesley Vale, and closure of a chip
    mill
     freedom of information legislation implemented
     The Tasmanian Greens party formed in 1992 after Labor broke this accord
    http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Green%20Politics.htm
    Bob Hawke – Australian Prime Minister (1983
    – 1991)
    Having been elected as Prime minister in the
    midst of the Franklin conflict, Bob Hawke’s
    Labor government recognised the need to
    National policy support conservational actions in Australia.
    changes due to Increasing environmental awareness during this
    period led to the following policy changes:
    increased  Phase out of ozone depleting
    environmental chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
    awareness  Set up of the national Landcare program
     Improved efforts to conserve endangered
    flora and fauna
     Committed to planting 1 billion trees to
    combat soil erosion issues
    Task: Evaluate the influence political movements of
    the 1970s/80’s of human relationships at an
    The link environment you have visited or studied.
     Building of the SGCS
     Declaration of the marine park 2005
     Classification of climate emergency 2019?
     The effects of the environmental movements of the 1970s-1980s
    such as The Wilderness Society which developed out of the
    Franklin river and Lake Pedder can be seen in examples such as …..
    There is strong links between the declaration of a climate
    emergency and the actions of The Wilderness Society.
     Overall there is a large influence on the relationships within the
    Inverloch area.

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