In an exquisite piece of political timing, the Queensland Greens chose the weekend before the new 2025 parliament resumed to expel Drew Hutton, the man who in 1992 co-founded the federal party with Tasmanian Bob Brown.

This is the same Drew Hutton who was the Greens standard bearer in Queensland for decades, until his “retirement” from politics in 2010, when he set up the Lock-the-Gate movement with farmers to slow the encroachment of mining and gas exploration on prime farming land.