"One of Australia's largest green groups, The Wilderness Society, has torn itself in half, with two factions claiming to be the legitimate managers of the 46,000-member organisation.
At a dramatic series of meetings in Canberra last night, a splinter group protesting the performance of the society's long-standing management team and its executive director, Alec Marr, stormed out of a special general meeting and held a separate meeting 700 metres down the road to elect a new management committee."
Sunday, May 2, 2010
The Wilderness Society splits gets worse
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on a really bad split in The Wilderness Society. So what is going on? Is it generational (the management is older and made up of long-time activists), financial (it is still very well-funded I understand), ideological (the management is seen as not radical enough)..? The meeting last night looks set for even more pain at a time when the green movement needs to be working on angles for the upcoming Federal election.
