He may have retired from politics but Bob Brown says he will be Green until the day he dies. This weekend he was in Kingscliff and Mullumbimby launching Dawn Walker’s campaign for Richmond and Cate Faehrmann’s senate push. He spoke to Sharon Shostak about his first year of ‘retirement’.
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