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Bob Brown and Drew Hutton jointly founded the Australian Greens party in 1992.
Co-founder and life member Drew Hutton was expelled by the party for a series of Facebook posts and comments he made about the Greens’ pro-transgender platform.
Following Hutton’s expulsion, it was revealed that more than 40 members of the Greens nation-wide have either been expelled or forced out of the Greens on gender issues.
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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.