Episode 2729
Lidia Thorpe
Tue, 2024-Oct-22 02:20 UTC
Length - 1:52
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With 190,378 views on Monday, 21 October 2024 our article of the day is Lidia Thorpe.
Lidia Alma Thorpe (born 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023 when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and became a leading figure in the "progressive No" campaign for the Voice referendum in October 2023. She had also served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.
Thorpe has previously been a member of the Victorian Parliament. On winning the Northcote state by-election on 18 November 2017 she became the first known Aboriginal woman elected to the state's parliament and served as the member for the division of Northcote in the Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2018.
Thorpe has received media attention for her support of the Blak Sovereign Movement and her criticism of the legitimacy of Australian political institutions, which she views as stemming from colonialism.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:20 UTC on Tuesday, 22 October 2024.
For the full current version of the article, see Lidia Thorpe on Wikipedia.
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