Overview

• State branch delegates voted to uphold the Constitution and Arbitration Committee’s decision and terminate Drew Hutton’s life membership for hosting harmful speech on his Facebook page.
• The disciplinary panel found that Hutton provided a platform for transphobic comments by refusing to remove them, which breached the party’s code of conduct.
• Federal Greens leader Larissa Waters defended the outcome as sound governance that demonstrates no member is above the rules.
• Former party leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne urged Hutton’s reinstatement on the grounds of grassroots democracy and warned against stifling internal debate.
• Hutton denounced the Greens as authoritarian and accused a faction focused on trans rights of sidelining its ecological mission, and he is now exploring legal and political avenues to contest his expulsion.