United Tasmania Group

UTG contested ten state and federal elections between 1972 and 1977, with the highest vote of 9.9% in the Legislative Council election with Rod Broadby in 1975 (see Appendix 4, UTG Journal Issue No. 6, 2021).

The United Tasmania Group's first President was Dr Richard Jones and it lasted for five years, briefly reforming in 1990 for the federal election. A few of the 1970s candidates, including Bob Brown, went on to form the Tasmanian Greens and then ultimately, at the national level, the Australian Greens.

On 2 April 2016 following a meeting, former members of the party re-started the group.{{cite news|last1=Bolger|first1=Rosemary|title=United Tasmania Group to reform over disquiet with current Greens party|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-04/first-greens-party-to-reform-in-tasmania/7297596|newspaper=ABC News|date=4 April 2016 |access-date=4 April 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/05/bob-brown-shrugs-off-impact-of-split-in-tasmanian-greens|title=Bob Brown shrugs off impact of split in Tasmanian Greens|first=Paul|last=Karp|date=5 April 2016|access-date=7 December 2018|website=Theguardian.com}}

The United Tasmania Group launched The UTG Journal in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Geoff-Holloway-Lab|title=Geoff Holloway's Lab - Independent Researcher ()|website=ResearchGate.net|access-date=7 December 2018}} The journal is designed to cover a wide range of topics, including the development of conservation and other issues since that original founding date in April, 1972. Nine issues of The UTG Journal have been published since the re-start of the organisation in 2016.

In the mid 1990s Lance Armstrong wrote a history of the politics of Tasmania in the 1990s.{{Citation | author1=Armstrong, Lance (Lance John Edward) | author2=Armstrong, Lance John Edward | title=Good God, he's green! : a history of Tasmanian politics 1989 to 1996 | date=1997 | publisher=Pacific Law Press | isbn=978-1-875192-08-3 }}

In the mid-2000s author Bill Lines also attempted to grapple with the broader scope of politics in Australia relative to greens politics in Patriots.{{Citation | author1=Lines, William J | title=Patriots : defending Australia's natural heritage | date=2006 | publisher=University of Queensland Press | isbn=978-0-7022-3554-2 }}

Meanwhile the 2017 Master's Thesis of Canadian scholar Blake Allen produced an analysis of how the UTG, and their effect on Tasmanian politics, reshaped the Australian federal relationship in a favorable manner for successive national governments.{{Cite thesis |title=Constituting the Australian environment : the transition of political responsibility for the environment in Australia from state to federal government, 1974 - 1983 |url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0340898 |publisher=University of British Columbia |date=2017 |first=Blake |last=Allen}} In the late 2010s Paddy Manning researched and wrote a history of the Greens in Australia, and included the UTG in the first chapter, acknowledging the importance of the group within the larger context.{{Citation | author1=Manning, Paddy | title=Inside the Greens : the origins and future of the party, the people and the politics | date=2019 | publisher=Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing | isbn=978-1-86395-952-0 }}

An unpublished Honours Thesis on the party by Pam Walker (University of Tasmania) was written in 1986, and the first chapter in Paddy Manning's book, Inside the Greens (2019), is devoted to the history of the party.{{Citation | author1=Manning, Paddy | title=Inside the Greens : the origins and future of the party, the people and the politics | date=2019 | publisher=Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing | isbn=978-1-86395-952-0 }}

• {{Citation | author1=United Tasmania Group | title=Newsletter | date=1970 | publisher=United Tasmania Group | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21861617 | access-date=4 April 2016 }}
• {{Citation | author1=United Tasmania Group | title=State newsletter | date=1976 | publisher=United Tasmania Group | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8943810 | access-date=4 April 2016 }}
• {{Citation | author1=United Tasmania Group | title=Alternative : journal of the Group | date=1977 | publisher=United Tasmania Group | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/80951366 | access-date=4 April 2016 }}
• {{Citation | author1=United Tasmania Group (issuing body.) | title=The UTG journal Issue No. 1 | journal=The Utg Journal | date=2018 | publisher=[Sandy Bay, Tasmania] United Tasmania Group | issn=2208-9497 }}

• The UTG Journal issue No. 1{{Cite web |url=https://stors.tas.gov.au/store/exlibris6/storage/2018/01/11/file_1/1557146.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702093257/https://stors.tas.gov.au/store/exlibris6/storage/2018/01/11/file_1/1557146.pdf |archive-date=2 July 2018 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• The UTG Journal Issue No. 2{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322999398|format=PDF|title=The UTG Journal Issue No. 2|website=ResearchGate.net|access-date=7 December 2018}}
• The UTG Journal Issue No. 3{{cite web|url=http://cdn-src.tasmaniantimes.com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/UTG-JOURNAL-3-online.pdf|title=The UTG Journal Issue No. 3|website=Cdn-src.tasmaniantimes.com.s3.amazonaws.com|access-date=7 December 2018}}
• The UTG Journal Issue No. 4{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326460553|format=PDF|title=The UTG Journal Issue No. 4|website=ResearchGate.net|access-date=7 December 2018}}
• The UTG Journal Issue No. 5{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333772468|format=PDF|title=The UTG Journal Issue No. 5|website=ResearchGate.net|access-date=7 December 2018}}
• The UNITED TASMANIA GROUP Story Policy Compilation The UTG Journal Issue No. 6 Special 50th year edition{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/46399393|format=PDF|title=The UTG Journal Issue No. 6 Special 50th year edition|website=Academia.edu|date=March 2021 |access-date=8 April 2022|last1=Holloway |first1=Geoff }}
• The UTG Journal Issue No. 7{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/74507487|format=PDF|title=The UTG Journal Issue No.7|journal=The United Tasmania Group Journal Issue No. 7|date=January 2022 |access-date=8 April 2022|last1=Holloway |first1=Geoff }}
• The UTG Journal Issue No. 8{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/95514766/United_Tasmania_Group_Journal_Issue_No_8|format=PDF|title=The UTG Journal Issue No. 8|website=Academia.edu|date=December 2022|access-date=20 February 2023|last1=Holloway |first1=Geoff }}
• The UTG Journal Issue No. 9{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/115047447/The_UTG_Journal_Issue_No_9|format=PDF|title=The UTG Journal Issue No. 9|website=Academia.edu|date=April 2024|access-date=30 April 2024|last1=Holloway |first1=Geoff }}

• List of political parties in Australia
• Living Soil Association of Tasmania

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720023118/http://www.globalgreens.info/literature/dann/chapterfive.html History of Green Politics in Tasmania]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20040213174237/http://www.global.greens.org.au/charter/UTGnewethic.html The UTG 'New Ethic' Charter]

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