Bob Brown renounces Australian Conservation Foundation life membership over Labor’s climate policy

Former Greens leader Bob Brown has disowned his ACF life membership over his opposition to the environment group’s stance on the ALP’s signature climate policy. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Former Greens leader Bob Brown has quit his life membership of the Australian Conservation Foundation in protest after the environment group urged parliament to “strengthen and pass” a signature Albanese government climate policy.

Brown said he had returned his life membership – awarded in the 1980s for his leadership in the campaign to save Tasmania’s Franklin River – over ACF’s position on the safeguard mechanism, an industrial emissions policy that is the subject of negotiations between Labor and the Greens.