DJ more, channel Zohran and get a sleep doctor: Adam Bandt on life after politics and saving the planet

Bandt says the Australian Conservation Foundation’s view remains the same as prior to his appointment as head: ‘Nature and the climate aren’t winning fast enough and we need to step up.’ Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

Sometime in the months after his shock defeat at last May’s federal election, Adam Bandt made a decision: his time in party politics was over.

Friends and colleagues had suggested the former Greens leader consider running for parliament again in 2028 – either returning to the lower house seat of Melbourne, which he held for 15 years, or putting up his hand for the Senate.