How Tasmania’s anti-protest laws drove Bob Brown back to frontline activism

Bob Brown: ‘Assume we have time to turn this around – if you can’t make that assumption, you might as well go home and read a book.’ Photograph: Andrew Wilson/The Guardian

This isn’t what Bob Brown had planned.

At 78, the man who launched the Australian Greens and whose decades of activism remain a lodestar for much of the country’s conservation movement had imagined a shifting focus in the final act of his life.