Former Leader of the Australian Greens, Bob Brown, has lauded the retiring ACT Greens Leader Shane Rattenbury as ‘Green gold’. “Shane has given the ACT and Greens politics two decades of exemplary political representation, including becoming the first Greens speaker of a parliament in the world, and then being a very successful Attorney-General in the last ACT Labor government dependent on the Greens”.

“Shane Rattenbury is a person of great integrity, intelligence and compassion. He showed how well the Greens can work with a Labor government as well as talk with conservatives in a way that retains Green ideals but fosters the wider interests of an electorate wanting politicians to put the community, not themselves, first. I look forward to seeing more of Shane in his retirement from politics and wish him more success in what will be, no doubt, a long career ahead.”