Sanctimonious Greens erupt into civil war

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I reported this week how the co-founder and life member of the Australian Greens, Drew Hutton, has been expelled from the party for a series of Facebook posts and comments he made about the Greens’ pro-transgender platform.

Hutton responded claiming that “there have been over 40 members of the Greens Australia-wide who have contacted me, and I’m sure there’s many others who didn’t contact me, who’ve either been expelled or forced out of the Greens on this one issue alone, this gender issue”.

“They have been forced out on this one issue for saying females, biological females, are what women are. It’s biological. It’s not a matter of whether you put on a dress and call yourself a woman. You’re a woman if you are a biological female”, he wrote.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.