Australian Greens leader says she has not read reasons for party’s expelling of co-founder

Australian Greens leader Larissa Waters told ABC’s 7.30 on Tuesday night she is focused on ‘introducing a climate trigger into our environmental laws and fixing the gender inequalities in our tax system’. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

Greens leader Larissa Waters says she has not read documentation outlining why the party’s co-founder, Drew Hutton, was expelled because she has been busy preparing for parliament.

The decision to terminate Hutton’s life membership of the Greens was upheld by delegates of the state branches on Sunday, over what the party considers his pursuit of debate harmful to trans people but that he has framed as an issue of free speech.