We forget that the Greens are a party founded on opposition to renewable energy — Bob Brown wanted a coal-fired power station instead of the Gordon below Franklin dam — but sometimes the contradictions come tumbling out, as they have allegedly in inner-city Melbourne.

The Age — usually the Greens own Pravda — courageously reports:

A Yarra City councillor has been accused of starting an altercation with another woman outside a gay club in South Yarra, before the councillor allegedly exclaimed “Allahu Akbar” and vowed to “make sure all these faggots die”.