Greens MP’s staffer offers to quit over vile tweets

Another scandal has rocked the Greens, with a staffer for Northcote MP Lidia Thorpe offering to quit after it was revealed his social media was littered with messages about porn, fat fetishes and misogynistic slurs.

A Greens staffer has offered to quit after it was revealed his social media was littered with messages about porn, fat fetishes and misogynistic slurs.

The culture of the Greens had been under a spotlight and two candidates have already come under fire — one for rap lyrics that referenced date rape and the other who quit for bragging about shoplifting and taking drugs.

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The Twitter posts of Paul McMillan, who works for Greens Northcote MP Lidia Thorpe, discuss paedophilia and glorify public sex acts.

He identifies himself as a Greens staffer and Ms Thorpe is one of his followers who can view his tweets.

An aide for Greens MP Lidia Thorpe has offered to resign over his offensive tweets. Picture: David Caird

Paul McMillan's social media is littered with lurid messages.

Some tweets joke about feminism.

“If we started locking up everyone who’s addicted to child porn there’d be nobody left,” one tweet reads.

Others joke about domestic violence, Muslims and feminism.

“Pretty f----d how Muslims want to ban my favourite hobby, greasing myself up in pig fat and oinking like a grunter at the traffic lights,” another tweet says.

And another: “Bring the p---- back to porn I can get behind that. Literally.”

“When are allegedly female trollumists going to learn that breasts are not a magical f------ tractor beam,” another says.

He also tweeted about public sex acts, “fat fetishes” and pornography.

Tonight, Ms Thorpe said the tweets were a breach of employment and the staffer had offered his resignation.

Paul McMillan also tweeted about porn.

Lidia Thorpe says the tweets were meant as “satire”.

“These comments were meant as satire, but there is no place for this type of language regardless of the intent,” Ms Thorpe said.

Tonight, the Twitter page had been changed and the biography said it belonged to a “long-term supporter of the Australian Labor Party and self-funded retiree”.

Mr McMillan had said he was the community outreach and constituent engagement lead for Ms Thorpe, and acted as her electorate officer. He said he had a key strategic role in Ms Thorpe’s “historic” 2017 by-election campaign win.

He also tweeted about “greasing myself in pig fat”.

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Last month, Greens candidate Joanna Nilson quit the election campaign after the Herald Sun revealed she had posted tips on stealing groceries and said service that home-delivered “nangs” — small canisters holding nitrous oxide gas for whipped cream, which some people inhale for a quick high — “sounds like a dream”.

Mr McMillan said it was “lucky” Greens candidate Angus McAlpine — who the Greens stood by after it was revealed he had performed lyrics that featured homophobic slurs and date rape — “didn’t write a rap song about nangs and shoplifting avocados.”

Today, before the latest scandal broke, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the Greens had “toxic cultural problem” around women.

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