Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young found herself at the centre of a Twitterstorm yesterday after a report in the Nine chipwrappers claimed she wrote a reference for a friend charged with common assault.

The sisterhood was swift to show its support: 

Ahh! Solidarity forever. Sisters are doing it to themselves.

There couldn’t be a little bit of politics behind this, could there? Some old Adelaide feud we don’t know about?

Illustration: Twitter.

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