‘No alternative’: Greens MPs call for the party’s Victorian convener to resign

Victorian Greens MP Tim Read says the party’s state convener has ‘no alternative’ but to resign. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Two Victorian Greens MPs say there is “no alternative” but for the party’s recently elected state convener to resign after she refused to disavow past comments that have been labelled “transphobic”.

Linda Gale, a senior industrial officer at the National Tertiary Education Union, was elected on Saturday to fill a casual vacancy of state convener of the Victorian Greens.