GREENS IN DENIAL ON VIOLENCE

I DID warn Greens leader Richard Di Natale on my show last month that his party’s hate-speech was putting people in danger, but he’s still in denial.

Di Natale claims he was shocked – shocked! – that The Australian newspaper reported that the woman who threw an egg at Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday was a Greens supporter.

“This is a disgraceful attempt by News Limited (sic) because an individual shared a post,” he told the always-friendly ABC.

“We’ve made it very clear that the way to defeat a rotten government … is in 10 days’ time at the ballot box.”

Except, of course, that’s not exactly true. The woman who egged Morrison was clearly inspired by a protester who in March egged far-Right Senator Fraser Anning. And how did Greens MPs and officials react then?

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young hailed Anning’s attacker as “Australia’s newest hero”.

Worse was the response from the Victorian Greens Women’s Network, whose co-conveners are former Greens candidate Joanna Nilson and Darebin council’s deputy mayor, Susanne Newton. It tweeted a picture of a tray of six eggs, each with a name on it, including mine, Peter Dutton’s, Rupert Murdoch’s and … Scott Morrison’s. That post was still up, the last time I looked.

Isn’t that direct incitement by the Greens of exactly the kind of assault on the Prime Minister we saw on Tuesday?

That’s not “making it very clear” at all that the Greens reject violence, is it, Senator Di Natale?