Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton takes party to court in bid to reinstate life membership

Drew Hutton, who co-founded the Australian Greens and founded the Queensland Greens, had his party life membership terminated in July. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian

A co-founder of the Australian Greens is taking his former party to court in a bid to reinstate the life membership stripped from him about six weeks ago over what it considers his pursuit of debate harmful to trans people.

Drew Hutton filed an affidavit in the Queensland supreme court on Tuesday arguing that he was denied natural justice and procedural fairness when the 78-year-old retiree had his membership terminated by an assembly of branch delegates on 20 July.