On Saturday 18 June 2022 we awoke to the news of two devastating travesties of democracy within the Australian Greens. The democratic election of the Victorian Greens Convenor, Linda Gale, was overturned on a technicality, and a longstanding member of the NSW Greens, Anna Kerr, was expelled from the party and prohibited from ever rejoining.
We on the Australian left, whether members or not of the Greens, decry this travesty of process, of justice, and of democracy, and call on the Greens to reinstate Kerr and issue a formal public apology to Gale. We further call on them to work to resolve actual or perceived conflicts of rights in a democratic and respectful way, and thus to take strong action against bullying and public vilification of individuals, and against any attempt to shut down reasonable debate.
We further call on Federal and state governments alike, when considering sex-based and gender-based rights, not to pander to these bullying tactics but to calmly and thoroughly consider the issues on the basis of the best available evidence, and to listen to the voices of all stakeholders such that the rights and freedoms of all may be upheld. Anything less, and Australian state and federal governments fail in their most basic of democratic missions: their responsibility to all Australian people.
Source: Petition A failure of democracy and fundamental freedoms on the Australian left: Open letter
I can only imagine that the Greens party have done polling of voters in their targeted demographic and found that potential Green’s voters are more likely to belive fairy tales about gender/sex than they are to believe that ‘real women’ would be possibly feeling unsafe when an anatomical male invades their own spaces.
That the fantasy of deciding ones own gender based on signing a form and other issues is to never be discussed as an issue is totally ludicrous.
I trust that the Green’s will over turn their decision to ban these real women for life and that, should they wish to rejoin a party that has such Taliban-esque laws about free speach, they be welcomed back.