‘I’m not saying who I am’: Monique Ryan’s husband apologises for removing Liberal sign

“I’m not acting on behalf of anyone, mate,” Jordan says at one point. He appears to leave without the sign as the video concludes.

Ryan echoed her husband’s apology for removing the sign in a brief statement issued on Monday.

“It should not have happened,” she said. “All concerns around signage should be reported to council.”

Jordan’s profile on LinkedIn states he is the vice president of business development at Rhinomed Limited Australia – a global medical device company – and he describes himself as a seasoned commercial executive with 25 years experience.

The man who recorded the video, who asked not to be named, told this masthead it was filmed on Saturday afternoon while he was visiting his parents in the suburb of Camberwell.

“I was out the front doing some gardening and I hear some weird grunting noise and I opened up the door and there was a bloke ripping out the sign,” he said.

The man said he and his family are Liberal supporters, but not members of the party. He claimed he told Jordan he could have knocked on the door to ask the sign be moved instead of taking it without their consent.

“The sign was on the nature strip, but it’s hard to know where to draw the line in placing it,” he said.

Under state and local laws, a person with a campaign sign on private property is not allowed to have it extend over council-controlled land or a road. Signs are not allowed on public property.

A Liberal party spokesman said the incident revealed the teals’ true character.

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“The teals preach integrity in public, but then behave like this when they think no one is looking,” the spokesman said.

“It’s disappointing that we now need to consider how to best keep our property and volunteers safe when Monique and her husband are around.”

Earlier this month, another placard dispute took place in the Sydney seat of Wentworth. Liberal candidate Ro Knox alleged a sign supporting teal MP Allegra Spender had been placed by someone to cover a photograph of an Israeli family who were kidnapped during Hamas’ October 2023 terrorist attack.

Spender threatened to sue Knox for her claims and produced evidence showing her campaign sign was there before the image of the kidnapped family.

The emergence of the video comes after Ryan’s campaign on Friday organised a snap rally of dozens of supporters outside The Tower Hotel in Hawthorn East to protest a large anti-Ryan Liberal party ad on the pub which Ryan described as a, “nasty piece of attack advertising which misrepresents my voting record in parliament”.

The ‘Teal Revealed’ ad claims Ryan voted with the Greens 77 per cent of the time in parliament, and is party of a wider campaign by the Liberal party to discredit the Climate 200-backed independents.

Last year The Age and Sydney Morning Herald analysed the voting records of each teal. It showed Ryan voted with Labor on either the second or third reading of substantive legislation 70 per cent of the time.

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