<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1cb43b1d-4369-4c63-92d0-dc56be170437/8946FBFB-A4C3-45FB-8378-2612040F0333/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-14_u-117_t-319_c-1083/bob-brown-green-politics/nsw/history/power-people-and-politics-in-the-post-war-period/people-and-power" href="http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-14_u-117_t-319_c-1083/bob-brown-green-politics/nsw/history/power-people-and-politics-in-the-post-war-period/people-and-power" style="font-size: 11px;">www.skwirk.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-14_u-117_t-319_c-1083/bob-brown-green-politics/nsw/history/power-people-and-politics-in-the-post-war-period/people-and-power"><P>The sense that the south-west Tasmania wilderness was a frontier in the environmental battleground (still in its early stages in this period) was felt throughout Australia and even internationally. Lake Pedder supporters started a petition to stop the damming and collected some 10 000 signatures, the largest number ever collected in Tasmania.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-14_u-117_t-319_c-1083/bob-brown-green-politics/nsw/history/power-people-and-politics-in-the-post-war-period/people-and-power">Although unsuccessful, the Lake Pedder campaign set in place a precedent for the successful opposition of the Franklin River Dam project in the early 1980s.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-14_u-117_t-319_c-1083/bob-brown-green-politics/nsw/history/power-people-and-politics-in-the-post-war-period/people-and-power">n particular Brown's focus remained on forestry and environmental issues. He also focused on human rights issues, including international issues such as East Timor and West Papua. He also introduced bills proposing to abolish radioactive waste dumping, to ban mandatory sentencing of Aboriginal children and for stricter controls of greenhouse gases.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-14_u-117_t-319_c-1083/bob-brown-green-politics/nsw/history/power-people-and-politics-in-the-post-war-period/people-and-power">spoken out in opposition to Australia's involvement in the war in Iraq.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8946FBFB-A4C3-45FB-8378-2612040F0333/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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