The Year that Made Me: Bob Brown, 1976

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast · Feb 28, 2026 · 31m

Bob Brown is a giant of the environmental movement and Australian politics.A former doctor, Bob is the co-founder of the Australian Greens, served as a Senator from 1996, and party leader from 2005 until his retirement in 2012. Today at 81 he continues his lifelong work of environmental campaigning with the Bob Brown Foundation. The first biography of Bob aptly called him the “Gentle Revolutionary”. The BBC once called him the World’s Most Inspiring Politician.1976 is the year Bob has called his "year of reformation". The seeds of Australia's most significant environmental campaign were sown…