Victorian Greens leader ousts party’s state convener over past comments about trans people
by Nino Bucci from World news | The Guardian on (#60GCC)
Parliamentary leader Samantha Ratnam says she acted under party rules to overturn the recent election of Linda Gale
The leader of the Victorian Greens has ousted the party's controversial state convener after successfully applying to have recent election results set aside.
Linda Gale, a senior industrial officer at the National Tertiary Education Union, was elected last Saturday to fill a casual vacancy as state convener of the Victorian Greens, despite co-authoring a 2019 paper that had been labelled transphobic".
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