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Victorian Greens MP quits party after affair with staffer

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A Victorian state Greens MP has quit the party after revealing he had an affair with a female staffer, leaving a furious party leader Ellen Sandell to declare he had lost her trust and was “never welcome back”.

Prahran MP Sam Hibbins, whose seat also takes in upmarket Melbourne suburbs including South Yarra, Windsor, and parts of St Kilda and Southbank, quit the Greens on Friday to sit as an independent.

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Gus McCubbing is a journalist at the Australian Financial Review in Melbourne. Connect with Gus on Twitter. Email Gus at gus.mccubbing@afr.com

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