Petra Kelly
Activist and former Member of the German BundestagWikipedia
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Nov 4, 2026
William CooperHOST
Have you
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followed Green Party politics in Germany enough to know about the death of Petra Kelly?
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Yeah.
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What do you know or make of that? Do you think she was assassinated?
Sam WallmanGUEST
Yeah.
Max Chandler-MatherHOST
I think you did a really good job yesterday of describing one of the first instances of that, which is this place called Kelly's Bush, which is this sort of piece of bushland that developers wanted to demolish.
Max Chandler-MatherHOST
And I love the way you describe these sort of like wealthy middle-class women that like pick up the phone book, like, well, we want to save this piece of bush, and they're calling through the phone book.
Max Chandler-MatherHOST
And they get to the BLF, the local BLF chapter, and they call up these hardened construction workers and they're like, well, can you help in this unlikely alliance forms? And I agree with you, Sam.
Max Chandler-MatherHOST
Beautiful.
Max Chandler-MatherHOST
Yeah.
Sam WallmanGUEST
And wasn't Petra Kelly from the German or like a German activist was here in Australia and then she went back to Germany and took the name from the Green Bands to start the first Greens Party? Is that the
Max Chandler-MatherHOST
origin? Around that, there's some other history as well because the concept of even forming a Greens Party, which sort of started happening around the 1980s, ended up influencing the Germans as well.