The popularity of the Australian Greens has been steadily increasing since the first publication of Memo for a Saner World in 2004. The party will hold the balance of power in the Senate after the forthcoming federal election and is also expected to win seats in the lower house. This makes their indefatigable leader's profile of even wider interest.
Bob Brown has a terrific sense of wit ? a quality the media grabs never show but which is captured on the pages of the engagingly readable Memo for a Saner World. It not only covers major events such as the Franklin River blockade, but also makes the key issues of Green politics easily understood. Bob's unflagging optimism in the face of a shrinking natural world, his courage over the years after being assaulted, vilified, jailed and shot at for his work, makes Memo inspirational. At a time when the shelves are groaning with bad-news reads, this book is the very opposite.