BREAKING NEWS Greens leader dramatically QUITS party with blistering letter about 'scheming' colleagues: 'I certainly will not be silent'
The co-leader of the South Australian Greens has dramatically quit the party.
Tammy Franks announced she was leaving the Greens and shared a damning letter against her 'scheming' former colleagues on Tuesday afternoon.
Franks, who has been apart of the state Greens Party for 15, said her decision came with 'immense sadness'.
'I've made so many strong friendships and have comrades across the nation within the Greens family,' she wrote.
'I have also taken counsel from some of them about this decision and discovered in those conversations that sadly too many times this has happened before.
'I still believe in a Greens' vision for a better world and know there are many, many wonderful, committed, and well-intentioned people within the Party.
'But not all have such noble motivations, and they and their scheming are being too often enabled.'
Franks alluded to unfairness within the party and said she would no longer 'reward bad behaviour'.
'I leave the Greens today having hoped that those with thwarted ambitions, grudges and grievances would have focused on building up not tearing down,' she said.
'Especially once I moved aside for those with ambition and self-interest.
'Unfortunately, they have not relented. A small coterie colluded against me hoping to sabotage my work, to wear me down and dissuade me from continuing.
'They also acted as a clique to the detriment of not just me, but others working around them.'
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