Bandt said on Friday he would continue to encourage staff or MPs to use the new Parliamentary Workplace Support Service to raise any issues that arose and would keep working on developing positive workplace cultures within the party’s team.
“My actions show that I and the Greens take the issue of safe workplaces very seriously,” he told this masthead.
“My office and I have updated Greens’ internal process,encouraged staff and parliamentarians to use the new Parliamentary Workplace Support Service and have supported staff members who wish to raise issues both informally and formally.”
Cox said she was committed to working with the new support service on staff wellbeing and office culture.
“Part of this process has involved previous staff and includes strategic,cultural and trauma-based approaches that are consistent with responding effectively to the challenging work of a parliamentary office and the diverse constituency of my electorate,” she said.
“I met with the PWSS this week in Canberra and together we arrived at a resolution of the matter raised by this former staff member.”