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June 5th, 2012 
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Bob Brown says he will fund an award for environmentalist of the year. (AAP: Alan Porritt)
Former Greens leader Bob Brown will formally resign from the Senate next week and today he delivered a farewell speech at the National Press Club.
Senator Brown’s address was peppered with humour.
“Famously that early green philosopher Kermit said: It’s not easy being green,” Senator Brown said.
“However, in my philosophy it’s much harder being un-green.
“Green means fair to other people, democratic, resolving disputes peacefully and taking action in defence of the planet’s biosphere.”
It contained some swipes at conventional politics and News Limited, as well as some commentary about balance in the media landscape.
“I picked up a book that came out the other day from one of those right-wing think tanks saying and here’s the history of freedom of speech; from the Ancient Greeks to Andrew Bolt,” he said.
“We now have Andrew Bolt lined up as Socrates.”
Senator Brown will now write two books – one for children, another on secular ceremonies.
But unlike some retired politicians he says he will not be writing an autobiography, saying he prefers to look forward, not back.
To emphasise that point, he has announced he will be funding a national annual prize for “environmentalist of the year”.
“We’d like to announce the first winner on July 1 this year, that’s the 29th anniversary of the High Court decision … [which] meant that the Franklin River was saved,” he said.
Famously that early green philosopher Kermit said: It’s not easy being green. However, in my philosophy it’s much harder being un-green.
Senator Brown says he will take bets from anyone who is predicting the decline of the Greens’ popularity under Christine Milne.
And he says it is too early to write-off Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s chances of re-election.
“She has a remarkable inner reserve so I don’t think that should be dismissed as lightly as some people would have it dismissed,” he said.
He offered an alternative view on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
“I did a quick calculation. He’s down 4 per cent on the polls yesterday and at that projection somewhere towards the end of this year you’ll have nobody left in Australia supporting him if that trend continues,” Senator Brown said.
Looking back
The Senator says his biggest mistake was made in 1986 when he was a lone Green in Tasmanian state politics.
Back then the Parliament was trying to make the state’s criminal code gender neutral.
“It got to section 1:22 which prescribed male homosexuality and I was expecting the Labor Party and Opposition would get rid of this section but they didn’t,” he said.
“And so very nervously I moved that it also be made gender neutral and thereby made lesbian activity illegal as well and the House immediately passed it and it was headed for the Upper House.
“I was internally haemorrhaging for two days.”
It would have passed, had it not been for Queensland’s then-premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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Bob Brown says farewell
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“Who had been asked whether he’d move to extend the law in Queensland to proscribe female homosexuality and he said ‘Oh goodness, goodness, goodness no, no of course I wouldn’t’,” Senator Brown said.
“And this was in the press. So I sent that attached to a little note; and remember Bob Brown made this amendment to the members of the Upper House who duly voted down this innovation that I’d sent to the Upper House and saved my skin.
“So I am grateful to Joh for that.”
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As the Senator will not be writing a book about this life, he was asked to detail the events of September 18, 1970 – the night musician Jimi Hendrix died in London.
“I was a young resident doctor at St Mary Abbots Hospital, yes, when Jimi was brought in dead and he had been dead for some hours,” Senator Brown said.
“And another Australia doctor signed his death certificate, I didn’t.
“You know it was just one of those events of being in a place where really a great loss to the world had occurred in that terrible age of 27, which seems to claim so many songsters and musicians and poets from the planet.”
Senator Brown says there is a lot of unfinished business that the Greens will continue to pursue now that he is moving on; euthanasia, equal marriage, and a sovereign wealth fund, if only to build a high speed rail network.
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