Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has become the second Greens MP to cut short a press conference after questions about bullying allegations against senator Dorinda Cox.
Greens party leader Adam Bandt has defended his party’s handling of bullying allegations directed at senator Dorinda Cox and declared the embattled West Australian has his full support.
Embattled Greens senator Dorinda Cox has threatened legal action against her own party,halting moves to start a formal censure motion over allegations the MP bullied staff in her office.
Adam Bandt was briefed on a series of scathing assessments of his party’s internal culture.
WA party officials will investigate the complaints and the party asked any others affected to come forward.
Two more former Greens staff have come forward with fresh allegations about senator Dorinda Cox,piling pressure on party leader Adam Bandt to take action.
Greens leader Bandt was repeatedly asked what steps he and his office had taken to investigate the allegations against Cox raised with his office.
Twenty staff have left Greens WA senator Dorinda Cox’s office in just three years,with several lodging formal complaints alleging a hostile culture.
Cox and Thorpe once had offices 20 metres apart,separated only by a mail room,but the Greens First Nations spokeswoman has now moved as far away as possible.
Months after Lidia Thorpe left the party over her opposition to the Voice,the party is still deeply divided on the referendum.
No campaigners are taking a “post-truth approach to politics” with the aim of polarising people,Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney says.