Name English	Australian Capital Territory seats
Colorcode	#10C25B
Seats1 Title	Legislative Assembly
Seats1	Australian Greens Australian Greens Name English Northern Territory seats Colorcode #10C25B Seats1 Title Legislative Assembly Seats1 Australian Greens      Home | Australian Political Party | Australian Greens Seats2 Title Senate Seats2 The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is an Australian green political party. The party was formed in 1992; however, its origins can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the United Tasmania Group (UTG), the first Green party in the world, which first ran candidates in the 1972 Tasmanian state election. Co-ordination between green groups peaked in the 1980s with various environmental protests including one of the most significant environmental campaigns in Australian history against the proposed damming of the Franklin River and the subsequent flooding of Lake Pedder. Key people involved in these campaigns included current leader Bob Brown and Christine Milne who went on to contest and win seats in the Tasmanian Parliament and eventually form the Tasmanian Greens. Through national organisation and affiliations the Greens have grown rapidly in power and scope. The party's policies have broadened from environmentalism to include policies aligned with the philosophies of grassroots democracy, social justice, conservation, and the peace movement. Today the Australian Greens have five Senators (nine from 1 July 2011) and one member in the lower house of the Parliament of Australia, 24 elected representatives in State and Territory Parliaments, more than 100 local councillors and close to 10,000 party members. At the 2010 federal election the Greens received a four percent swing to finish with 13 percent of the vote (more than 1.6 million votes) in the Senate, a first for any Australian minor party. The Senate vote throughout the states was between 10 to 20 percent. The Greens won a seat in each of the six states at the election, again a first for any Australian minor party, bringing the party to a total of nine Senators from July 2011, and will hold the sole balance of power in the Senate. The Greens also won their first House of Representatives seat at a general election, the seat of Melbourne with candidate Adam Bandt. A crossbencher in the first hung parliament since the 1940 federal election, he is one of four crossbenchers providing confidence and supply to the Gillard Labor minority government.

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2010 election onward :

Other minor parties :
Year	Name	Term in office	class="unsortable"Period	Time in office
2005	Bob Brown		28 November 2005 � present	Incumbent

Other minor parties :
Year	Name	Notes
2008	Christine Milne	Incumbent

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