With Mehreen and SHY at risk of being fired in the next election the Greens had to go with Shoebridge who will stay for another term unless AnAl calls double dissolution election.
Greens co-founder lobs extraordinary Hamas, transgender, inner city question at new leader - as Mehreen Faruqi fumes about losing out
Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton has launched an extraordinary attack on the party he helped create, challenging new leader David Shoebridge over the Greens' stance on Hamas, transgender issues and the slogan 'globalise the Intifada'.
Hutton is little known outside of political circles, but was instrumental in formalising the Greens as a force, founding the Queensland Greens in 1990 and later helping create the national party alongside environmental activist Bob Brown in 1992.
'I'll ask the new Greens leader, David Shoebridge, the same question I asked Mehreen: will he issue a statement supporting a two-state solution, condemn Hamas and criticise the use of 'globalise the Intifada'?' Hutton wrote.
'And how are the Greens going to fight One Nation when they think a man can be a woman, won't criticise Hamas and continually wear keffiyahs and have no idea how to communicate with ordinary Australians who aren't young, live in the inner-city and have university degrees?' he said.Hutton's intervention comes just months after he dramatically severed ties with the party in Queensland, arguing the Greens had abandoned the principles that first inspired him to enter politics.
The 79-year-old resigned in June - despite successfully fighting to have his life membership reinstated by the party over a drawn-out internal dispute over transgender rights and social media comments.
Speaking to ABC's 7.30 in 2025, Hutton accused the party of shutting down debate on gender policy.
'What I disagree with vehemently is the way that anybody who actually voices any dissent with that policy and does so from a credible position, that there is such a thing as biological sex and there are two sexes, is forced out of the party,' he said.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16174363/greens-david-shoebridge-mehreen-... Once upon a time the Greens were tree huggers now they're a party that hugs Hamas Trannys Commies and degenerates.
Greens voters usually preference Labor.