"The Greens", written by Bob Brown and Peter Singer introduces the Greens to a wide audience. Both authors were Green candidates for the Australian Senate at the time of writing. Bob Brown is one of the founders of the Australian Greens. As director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, he led the campaign that saved the Franklin River from impoundment for a hydroelectric scheme, and was a member of the Tasmanian parliament from 1983?93. Brown was voted Australian of the Year in 1993 by The Australian newspaper, and in 1990 won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Peter Singer is Australia's leading public philosopher and the author of award winning and best selling non-fiction Animal Liberation and How are We to Live? At the time of writing he was Professor of Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne.