Jordon Steele-John

It's perhaps not the start the new Greens party leader David Shoebridge imagined.

Yesterday it was announced that Senator Jordan Steele-John is taking leave following reports of allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women.

Today Mr Shoebridge is meeting with the Ukrainian ambassador over comments that have alarmed the community that the Greens do not support military aid to Kyiv.

Yet the party appears split on the issue with Sarah Hansen-Young, who lost the leadership contest to Mr Shoebridge, saying she does support military aid to Ukraine if that's what the country needs to defend itself from Russian aggression.

Meanwhile, uh, let's go to Canberra now.

There's a couple of stories happening in, uh, the sitting week of Parliament, but things are not going well for the Greens because their senator, Jordon Steele-John, stood aside yesterday, and he's taken a break from the party room but also from Parliament after a number of women who are linked to the Greens, both as staffers and ex-staffers, came forward to make serious allegations that he had been inappropriate with them.

And the story has just taken a turn for the worse because in the last few minutes it's been revealed the Greens created and maintained a secret dossier that catalogues the allegations against Senator Steele-John.

This story's in the Sydney Morning Herald, and as part of this, we understand there were a number of ways outlined to shut down media coverage about this coming out.

Now, the allegations date back a decade, and as I say, a number of women, both current and former Green staff, have made these allegations against Senator Jordon Steele-John.

Uh, 2GB federal politics reporter Nelson Scott joins us from Parliament now.

Nelson, thanks for your time.

Uh, these go back as far as twenty sixteen.

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The Greens reportedly devised plans to shut down media coverage regarding allegations against Senator Jordon Steele-John.

The crisis communications strategy obtained by the Sydney Morning Herald reveals the party was maintaining a secret dossier on Mr. Steele-John since 2016.

It was around a year before he was introduced to the Senate.

The document shows a senior Greens member quit her role after the senator was reinstated as the Western Australia branch's volunteer coordinator.

Uh, it's "The Greens' secret dossier to bury senator claims" is the headline, Terry.

"A secret Greens dossier cataloged allegations against Senator Jordon Steele-John and set out ways to shut down media coverage and monitor members who raised concerns on social media.

The crisis communications strategy obtained by The Age reveals that as far back as 2016, before Steele-John was parachuted into the Senate in 2017, the party was managing complaints.

The document says a senior Greens official quit her role because Steele-John was reinstated as the WA branch's volunteer coordinator despite two women complaining he had made inappropriate remarks while working with them." This is a real, uh, a real issue for the Greens, um, that has been, well, there it is today, and also over the last few days in our, uh, news.

Well, indeed.

I mean, Jordon Steele-John, the West Australian senator, has, uh, uh, taken leave, as they put it, from the Greens party, uh, over these allegations of inadequ- uh, inadequate, uh, sorry, uh, inappropriate, uh, behavior towards women, um, in terms of, uh, uh, uh, what is being alleged as a, a serial history of, of obnoxiousness.

Um, uh, but I think we've got to be careful here, Pat, because, uh, uh, these allegations clearly have been around for a while, and James Massola of the, um, the Nine newspapers, uh, has highlighted that, that front page story.

Uh, but, but, but certainly, uh, the fact that, um, they've only, this has only happened this week, uh, after the change of leadership in the, in the federal Greens, after the fact that Jordon Steele-John was one of the, one of the 11 in the Greens party room.

Now the front of the Saturday Age front page, Greens secret dossier to bury Senator claims is the headline.

A secret Greens dossier catalogued allegations against Senator Jordan Steele-John and set out ways to shut down media coverage and monitor members who raise concerns on social media.

The crisis communications strategy obtained by The Age reveals that as far back as 2016, before Steel John was parachuted into the Senate in 2017, the party was managing complaints.

The document says a senior Greens...

Front page of the Saturday Age, and look, probably maybe some of the Sydney papers as well.

It's the Greens' secret dossier to bury Senator claims, is the headline, Terry.

A secret Greens dossier catalogued allegations against Senator Jordan Steele-John, and set out ways to shut down media coverage and monitor members who raise concerns on social media.

The crisis communications strategy obtained by The Age reveals that as far back as 2016, before Still John was parachuted into the Senate in 2017, the party was managing complaints.

that they are prepared to scuttle investment, firms, jobs, opportunity in order for a sort of inside baseball Canberra political game.

A secret dossier has reportedly emerged containing allegations about Greens Senator Jordan Steele-John.

The SMH reports the document, dating back a decade, details concerns about the WA Senator's alleged behaviour towards women.

Now, he's currently on leave from Parliament while the Greens oversee an independent investigation into the allegations.

Don't go away.

[upbeat music] I tell you, the, the Greens have some more questions to answer with this Jordon Steele-John situation.

I mean, James Massola in the Nine papers broke a ripper story this afternoon that the Greens have been running a secret dossier cataloging allegations against him for years, and setting out ways to shut down media coverage and monitor party members who said anything about it on social media.

Mr. Massola writes that the crisis communication strategy obtained by the This Masthead, that is, uh, The Sydney Morning Herald, reveals that as far back as 2016, before Steele-John was parachuted into the Senate in 2017, the party was managing complaints.

They have drifted so far from the mainstream interests of Australians and of Australian industry that they are prepared to, uh, scuttle investment, firms, jobs, opportunity in order for a sort of inside baseball Canberra political game.

A secret dossier has reportedly emerged containing allegations about Green Senator Jordon Steele-John.

The SMH reports the document dating back a decade.

It details concerns about the WA senator's alleged behavior towards women.