Drew Hutton says Greens have ‘lost their way’ after party votes to expel co-founder

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Drew Hutton using right-wing talking points. What a surprise.

  The deadlock broke open in March 2025 when Hutton spoke to the Saturday Paper and later to the Guardian in July. In the interim, Hutton began increasingly sharing articles and opinions on Facebook that criticised what he called “trans extremists”.

  The Saturday Paper? Did you miss the memo about BDS Drew?

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  • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “People are starting to see the Greens as weird and unlikable,’ Hutton said.

    Absolutely spot on 🤣

    Talk about burning bridges! Adios Drew!

    In the historic shift to the left at the last election the greens didn’t gain much and lost a bunch of seats, you waving off one of the most strongest greens members of all time who still has support of both the Greens’ first and second national leaders, Bob Brown and Christine Milne makes me think that maybe the greens members haven’t learned much?

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    • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In the historic shift to the left at the last election

      It wasn’t a shift to the left. The Coalition abandoned the centre, allowing Labor to win by default as the only centrist major party.

      the greens didn’t gain much and lost a bunch of seats

      The nationwide first preference vote swing against The Greens was -0,05%. This idea that they suffered from some massive voter backlash for being “too woke” is a total myth.

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    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The Greens will be fine. I’m not a member by the way.

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• Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thank you so much for posting this, I haven’t laughed this hard since watching shane gillis the other day

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• Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Free speech is an American concept, in Australia inciting hate against minorities is not considered a thing that should be allowed and rightly so. That said we (like America) need to do more on defamation laws so it’s not the rich people enforcing speech restrictions.

  That said, specifically Drew Hutton wasn’t even accused of transphobia. The issue was that him criticizing the Greens for their decision to expel a transphobic member “provided a platform for others to demean trans women” which is … I think we can all agree unreasonable. That was only a suspension though. The specific “criticism of trans extremism” that later got him booted from the party entirely isn’t entirely specified.

  “People are starting to see the Greens as weird and unlikable”

  Hence why I am keen to give Drew Hutton the benefit of the doubt here.

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “People are starting to see the Greens as weird and unlikable”

    Hence why I am keen to give Drew Hutton the benefit of the doubt here.

    I just don’t think this is true. Drew is being snarky after going in to bat for TERFs and losing. That’s all.

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