As Judith Collins once said, when a man earnestly assures you of his honesty, you should check your pockets. When the Teals endlessly blatherskite about ‘integrity’ and ‘decency’, you just know it’s all a load of horse-puckey.
Right on cue…
Victoria Police are investigating after a second video emerged in the heated battle for Kooyong, which appears to show the destruction of a poster of Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer.
Boy, those ultra-rich lefties sure do ’ave ’em. Previous elections in Kooyong have been marred by anti-Semitism, with then-Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s billboards defaced with Nazi imagery. Greens candidate Julian Burnside, the self-righteous, boat-chasing ‘human rights’ advocate, was forced to apologise for anti-Semitic tweets. Keeping it in the family, his partner Kate Durham, also had to delete tweets and apologise to Frydenberg.
But it was Mongo who eventually toppled Frydenberg. But, Green or Teal, the actions of the wealthy left constantly belie their self-serving rhetoric.
The husband of Kooyong MP Monique Ryan has been filmed removing a sign depicting Liberal candidate for the inner Melbourne seat, Amelia Hamer, arguing that the corflute was on public land.
The teal MP’s husband, Peter Jordan, is shown bickering with the man filming him about his actions and refusing to give his identity, in a video that surfaced online this morning.
Teal tantrum. Monique Ryan’s husband stealing an Amelia Hamer poster from the nature strip of a residential property and running off with it. Desperate and dishonourable. pic.twitter.com/RmGQDfgk6i
— Law Girl (@Law_Girl_) March 23, 2025
Teal independent Monique Ryan and her husband Peter Jordan have apologised after Mr Jordan was filmed removing a sign of Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer.
There’s only one problem: they’re exposed as utter hypocrites. Jordan claims, in the video, that he’s taking the sign down because it’s illegally on public land. Council by-laws indeed prohibit candidate signs on public or council-controlled land.
So, yeah, about that:
Separate pictures obtained by the Australian appeared to show Dr Ryan’s campaign posters tied to bicycles and then chained to street poles.
Asked whether these signs would also be considered to be placed on public property, a spokesperson for Dr Ryan said all the bikes had been removed.
They’re always sorry when they get caught.
The dirty tricks are on for good and old in Kooyong, though. Teal supporters are clearly worried that their candidate is on track for a hiding.
New CCTV footage from March 7 appears to show two people approaching a poster hanging on the front gate of a house in Toorak, Melbourne, which sits within the seat of Kooyong.
“What’s the most economic way to make this a pain in the arse to take down and also, like, to humiliate both of them and …” one person is heard saying before the recording becomes inaudible.
The video then shows the other person apparently slashing the poster in half. Photos taken in the morning show the destroyed poster.
A police spokesperson said officers were aware of the incident and were making inquiries.
A Liberal Party spokesperson noted that it’s not the first time for these sort of shenanigans.
“The teals preach integrity in public, but then behave like this when they think no one is looking,” a spokesperson said. “Regretfully this is not the first time we’ve seen this sort of behaviour.
“It’s disappointing that we now need to consider how to best keep our property… safe.”
The Libs aren’t buying Mongo’s one-sentence apology, either.
[Liberal senator James Paterson] told Sky News it was not the first instance of “bad behaviour” from Dr Ryan’s campaign.
He pointed to a media report from earlier this month concerning an altercation between Dr Ryan and Liberal volunteers and claims dozens of Liberal Party signs in Kooyong had been defaced and stolen.
Teals, thy name is hypocrite.
