Greens leader Bandt was repeatedly asked what steps he and his office had taken to investigate the allegations against Cox raised with his office.
Greens leader Adam Bandt has dramatically cut short a press conference in Perth after ducking a series of questions about bullying allegations levelled at the party’s WA senator Dorinda Cox., with several lodging formal complaints with the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service and Bandt’s office that alleged a hostile culture where employees felt unsafe.
Bandt was repeatedly asked what steps he and his office had taken to investigate the allegations against Cox raised with his office but declined to answer because of the “personal and confidential nature of a number of these complaints”.He would also not say if the WA senator would keep her First Nations portfolio, whether a bullying investigation would be launched by the Greens or if there would be any other consequences for the senator.
“So the Greens, together with others, pushed very strongly for some independent oversight and a watchdog to look across the whole of parliament and that’s the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service , so that when staff members have issues, they could have 100 per cent confidence that they were going to be dealt with, not as some political matter, but were going to be dealt with by an independent agency.
Bandt said that if the support service made any recommendations about Cox’s office, “we will take those on board”.
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