Tag: Lidia Thorpe

Aboriginal Australia

“I have to Voice – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies and Misdemeanours | Facebook

If you 'don’t know' about the Voice, how about you actually listen?

“Yes” Lidia but It begins with a “Yes”  and not “No”

Senator Lidia Thorpe was at the National Press Club outlining many of the arguments the Indigenous “progressive No” have been making, and highlighting what she believes is the way forward:

– Truth-telling about Australia’s history,

– Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody,

– Implementation of recommendations from the Bringing Them Home Report,

– Writing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into Australian law, – Treaty.

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Media

Beyond the media hype: Tom Tanuki talks to Lidia Thorpe

Lidia Thorpe sets the bar with independent media’s Tom Tanuki, given mainstream press can’t be trusted enough to tell her side of the story.

Source: Beyond the media hype: Tom Tanuki talks to Lidia Thorpe

AFP

AFP treatment of Lidia Thorpe ‘disturbing’: Burney

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The federal police treatment of independent senator Lidia Thorpe at a protest outside Parliament House has been labelled disturbing and concerning by the Indigenous Australians minister Linda Burney.

Source: AFP treatment of Lidia Thorpe ‘disturbing’: Burney

Australia's Shame

Why we shouldn’t care Lidia Thorpe dated an ex-bikie

On the matter of the recent Lidia Thorpe controversy, I want to state a layperson perspective, one we won’t see much of amidst the swamp of Australian political opinion columns.

Here it is: I don’t give a shit if Lidia Thorpe dated an ex-bikie.

Source: Why we shouldn’t care Lidia Thorpe dated an ex-bikie

LNP Corruption, LNP Tactics

We Don’t Need A Kangaroo Court To Decide That Lidia Thorpe Is Unfit To Stay In Parliament – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We Don't Need A Kangaroo Court To Decide That Lidia Thorpe Is Unfit To Stay In Parliament - The AIM NetworkGladys Berejiklian shows she knows Morrison will push her under a bus.

Well, it would be because there is no jury. What I’m trying to say is that the decision has been made by the people who matter which – as I am sure you know is the Federal Coalition. Lidia Thorpe has failed to declare a conflict of interest.

Peter Dutton has led the charge, announcing that Senator Thorpe must leave Parliament because ‘you can’t receive those briefings during the day and then hang out, you know, in nice circumstances of a night-time with a bikie.

 

Source: We Don’t Need A Kangaroo Court To Decide That Lidia Thorpe Is Unfit To Stay In Parliament – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

‘We don’t need a new king’: Lidia Thorpe calls for Indigenous treaty then a republic | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian

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Australia’s path to a Republic is less complex than Canada’s or NZs we have no treaties and Indigenous Australians aren’t even named in our Constitution We only admitted Terra Nullis was wrong 25-30 years ago and are trying to remedy our historic failings now. A Republic seems simple as do treaties under an entirely new Constitution that goes with a Republic.

Greens senator says people expected her to be ‘ranting and raving’ after Queen’s death but she has reflected and now wants Labor to ‘show ambition’

Source: ‘We don’t need a new king’: Lidia Thorpe calls for Indigenous treaty then a republic | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian

Victoria

Victoria’s First Aboriginal Senator, Lidia Thorpe, Speaks to Jacobin

On October 6, Lidia Thorpe was sworn in as the first Aboriginal woman to represent Victoria in Australia’s parliament. Thorpe spoke to Jacobin about a centuries-long struggle for justice.

Victoria’s First Aboriginal Senator, Lidia Thorpe, Speaks to Jacobin