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Woman charged over alleged stalking and attempted extortion of Greens senator Jordon Steele-John

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Canales, S. B. (2026, November 4). Woman charged over alleged stalking and attempted extortion of Greens senator Jordon Steele-John. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/04/jordon-steele-john-woman-charged-alleged-stalking-attempted-extortion-greens-senator-court-ntwnfb

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The Guardian · collected 2026-11-04 · by Sarah Basford Canales

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A 40-year-old woman has been charged with aggravated stalking and extortion related to Greens senator Jordon Steele-John. The charges stem from incidents involving alleged threats and demands for property, reported by Western Australian police on Wednesday. The accused is set to appear before a Perth magistrates court, and she is reportedly a former partner of Steele-John. Steele-John has been involved in additional scrutiny over unspecified allegations made by women between 2017 and 2025, which he denies, and these are under investigation by the WA Greens and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission.
Written by AI on 2026-11-05, from this article's own text only (the story summary below draws on all the coverage).

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A 40-year-old woman has been charged with aggravated stalking and attempted extortion against Western Australian Greens senator Jordon Steele-John. Police allege she is a former partner of Steele-John, who was absent from parliament last week following allegations of inappropriate behavior towards women between 2017 and 2025. The woman faces charges in the Perth Magistrates Court for threats demanding property by written means. An independent investigation into these allegations has been initiated by the WA Greens. Steele-John denied all claims in a lengthy statement posted to social media, while some party members urged leader David Shoebridge to investigate further.

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📰 Jordon Steele-John's Ex Arrested
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🔮 Jordon Steele-John has confirmed he will not attend parliament next week as the embattled Greens senator releases a letter detailing the allegations against him.
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🔮 Only if two-thirds of the party room - or more than seven members - decided to expel him in a secret ballot, would Steele-John have no option but to comply.
2026-10-23 · assertive framing · Jordon Steele-John’s position remains in limbo as Greens prepare for moment in spotlight
🔮 Nine newspapers reported last week that seven party members had demanded an investigation into allegations Steel-John had acted inappropriately towards women between 2017 and 2025. Steele-John, in his Sunday night statement, said he was not on leave, contrary to Shoebridge’s comments last week, and claimed he had been pressured by the leader to request leave on Thursday as Nine’s story was breaking. “I feel that he used those meetings to repeatedly pressure me to say that I would take leave,” Steele-John said on Sunday.
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🔮 Steele-John said some of the letter’s authors and signatories may have signed the letter out of “genuine commitment” to people who experienced violence but he was angry it had been politicised.
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🔮 Steele-John confirmed he would leave the party room on Thursday after some details of historical complaints about inappropriate comments made to women ranging between 2017 and 2025 were publicly aired in the media.
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Greens Nine Perth Steele-John Western Australian

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Steele-John PERSON · 5× Greens ORG · 3× Perth GPE · 2× David Shoebridge PERSON · 1× Jordon Steele-John PERSON · 1× Nine ORG · 1× Western Australian NORP · 1× the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission ORG · 1× the WA Greens ORG · 1×

Narrative

Steele-John did not attend parliament last week after a group of Greens members sent a three-page letter to the Greens leader, David Shoebridge, urging an investigation into allegations that Steele-John had acted inappropriately towards women between 2017 and 2025.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-11-05
🔮 WA police will allege the woman is a former partner of Steele-John.
2026-11-05 · The Guardian
Woman charged over alleged stalking and attempted extortion of Greens senator Jordon Steele-John · assertive framing

Claims (8 extracted, 1 hedged)

A 40-year-old woman has been arrested and charged by Western Australian police for allegedly stalking and attempting to extort the Greens senator Jordon Steele-John. uncertain
woman → arrest → senator
WA police said on Wednesday detectives from the family violence investigation squad charged the Perth woman with one count of aggravated stalking with intent to intimidate and one count of demanding property by written threats, commonly known as extortion. asserted
detectives → say → extortion
WA police will allege the woman is a former partner of Steele-John. asserted
woman → allege → John
The woman is due to appear in a Perth magistrates court on Thursday morning. asserted
woman → appear → morning
A spokesperson for Steele-John said: “The senator won’t be commenting on this investigation further at this time.” asserted
senator → say → time
Steele-John did not attend parliament last week after a group of Greens members sent a three-page letter to the Greens leader, David Shoebridge, urging an investigation into allegations that Steele-John had acted inappropriately towards women between 2017 and 2025. asserted
John → attend → 2017
In a 2,400-word statement following a report by the Nine newspapers, Steele-John denied all the allegations made against him in the letter. asserted
John → follow → letter
These complaints are now subject to an independent investigation commissioned by the WA Greens and have been referred to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission. asserted
complaints → commission → Commission
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