Just The Greens doing Greens things and completely bottling their new direction pitch under Shoebridge. I guess they still have a bit of time before the next election to build, but it’s probably fair to say anyone who wasn’t already a Greens voter has already checked out again. They are unfairly held to a higher standard by the media and the public, but they should know this by now.
Interesting that this is coming out now, when party leadership and impetus seems to be strong, as you point to, after what appears to be have been long-known. I am glad he’s taken leave and I hope we get clarity for everyone’s sake.
It is a positive imo, that it is a man who is the party leader at present, when Steele-John has been outed. If it were a woman, there’d probably be rumblings of gender culture wars.
EDIT: I hope this gives Shoebridge a chance to show that under his watch everyone in the Greens will be held to account. A lot of sexist toxicity has been well-known to happen in parliament house among people with different levels of power and position.