When a political party starts treating a good person, a hero even, as an evil bigot, it has become an authoritarian cult. Drew Hutton, who helped found the Australian Greens, was first suspended for pointing out that trans women are not, in fact, women. He was subsequently booted out, was reinstated on appeal, and finally resigned this week.
Hutton became one of the countless victims of a crackdown on free speech, and the party, on a global scale, becoming obsessed with woke causes. His case is a classic example of a party that has become dogmatic, authoritarian and exerts top-down control over its members.
I have interviewed Greens in a number of countries during the past two years, looking at the purges, mainly of women but also of men, for wrong think.
Massive divisions about extreme transgender ideology, the LGBTQIA2S+ politics of Green Youth, its support for the surrogacy trade, reframing prostitution as a job like any other, and being so obsessed with Palestine to be bordering on being pro-Hamas, the Greens have abandoned the planet for pronouns.
I contacted Hutton, whom I know from my previous research into the Greens, to ask how he was feeling about leaving. He said: “I am very sad to be leaving the party I founded and which was much of my life’s work, but I couldn’t retain any integrity if I had stayed in. It was started with such great hopes 34 years ago but has descended into an identity politics, authoritarian nightmare.”
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