Category: Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe

Moira Deeming Expulsion Push Based on Serious Errors

March 24, 2023
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Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming, who is facing a controversial move by the Victorian Liberal party to expel her, has said that she believes a dossier provided to the Victorian party leaders on her involvement in a controversial women’s rights protest contained several “serious errors.” Deeming spoke at the Melbourne “Let Women Speak” rally, which…

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Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe Quits Party Over Indigenous Voice to Parliament

February 5, 2023
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The Greens Indigenous Spokesperson, Lidia Thorpe, has quit the Greens party and will move to the crossbench. Thorpe announced the move on Feb. 6, saying she had realised that she could no longer pursue her advocacy for the Blak Sovereign Movement from within the Greens. “I have told Greens Leader Adam Bandt and the Senate…

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Greens Senator Under Probe for Undisclosed Relationship With Ex Gang Boss

October 21, 2022
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Left-wing Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe is under investigation over whether she breached any confidence when dating an ex-gang leader while being a member of the law enforcement committee. It comes as Labor and the Coalition are both placing pressure on Greens leader Adam Bandt to take stronger action against Thorpe, who announced her resignation from…

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Affirmative Action Removes Individual Agency: Indigenous Senator

October 6, 2022
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Framing Aboriginal Australians as victims removes responsibility from themselves as an individual rather than helping them flourish, says an Indigenous Australian senator.   Jacinta Price, new Country Liberal Party senator for Northern Territory, told The Epoch Times on Oct. 1 that such an approach creates the expectation that the “perceived oppressor,” who is white Australians…

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Australian PM Criticised for ‘Cringy’ Press Conference With NBA Star Shaquille O’Neal

August 30, 2022
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been criticised by Indigenous members of the centre-right Coalition and left-wing Greens for involving NBA star Shaquille O’Neal in the government’s efforts to implement the “Indigenous Voice” to Parliament. Jacinda Nampijinpa Price, conservative-leaning Country Liberal Party senator, and Lidia Thorpe, the Greens spokesperson for First Nations, delivered a strong…

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