High, lows of Milne's political career

HIGHS AND LOWS OF CHRISTINE MILNE'S CAREER

HIGHS

* Campaign to stop the Franklin Dam in 1983

* Campaign to stop the building of the Wesley Vale pulp mill in 1988

* Part of the Labor-Green parliament (resulting from a hung parliament) that doubled Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and passed freedom of information law reform

* First female leader of a political party in Tasmania in 1993

* Elected to the Senate in 2004

* Became leader of the Australian Greens in 2012

* Helped Labor implement the carbon tax

LOWS

* Lost seat of Lyons after major parties reduced Tasmanian House of Assembly seats from 35 to 25

* Trusting Treasurer Joe Hockey to deliver on serious climate action in the Intergenerational Report

* Failing to save the carbon tax from abolition