Leaders of the Australian Greens

There are Leaders of the Australian Greens (Greens) at the federal level, as well as in the several member parties which make up the confederation of the Australian Greens.

Background

On Saturday 12 November 2005 at the national conference in Hobart the Australian Greens abandoned their long-standing tradition of having no official leader and approved a process whereby a parliamentary leader could be elected by the Greens Parliamentary Party Room. On Monday 28 November 2005, Bob Brown – who had long been regarded as de facto leader by many inside the party, and most people outside the party – was elected unopposed as the Parliamentary Party Leader.^[1]

Most of the Green parties which have joined the Australian Greens do not have a formal leader, and instead they have a shared leadership structure.^[2] However, Tasmania, Victoria, and the ACT, have adopted singular leadership structures into their party.^[2]

Federal parliamentary leaders

The federal Leaders of the Australian Greens have been as follows:

#	Leader	State	Term start	Term end	Time in office
1	Bob Brown	Tasmania	28 November 2005	13 April 2012	6 years, 137 days
2	Christine Milne	Tasmania	13 April 2012	6 May 2015	3 years, 23 days
3	Richard Di Natale	Victoria	6 May 2015	3 February 2020	4 years, 273 days
4	Adam Bandt	Victoria	4 February 2020	Incumbent	4 years, 284 days

Federal deputy parliamentary leaders

Shown in chronological order of leadership

#	Portrait	Deputy Leader	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Leader
1		Christine Milne	10 November 2008	13 April 2012	3 years, 155 days	Bob Brown
2		Adam Bandt	13 April 2012	6 May 2015	3 years, 23 days	Christine Milne

#	Deputy Co-Leader	Deputy Co-Leader	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Leader
3	Scott Ludlam	Larissa Waters	6 May 2015	18 July 2017	2 years, 73 days	Richard Di Natale
4	Adam Bandt	Larissa Waters	21 July 2017	4 February 2020	2 years, 198 days	Richard Di Natale
5	Nick McKim	Larissa Waters	4 February 2020	10 June 2022	2 years, 126 days	Adam Bandt