Yet too often good people and businesses do bad things because they see no alternative. We see the Greens role in government as balancing our individual desires with what is in the best long-term interests of the whole community. We look beyond tomorrow when we decide what is good policy. We are committed to achieving a sustainable future - living within the planet's capacity to support us and every other species. And we are committed to a just world.
Some people say the Greens are idealists.
I say to them that we are the realists and the other parties are the dreamers. Our vision is relevant to the new millennium.