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Lidia Thorpe: trying to change the system from within?

6 October 2020

3:52 PM

6 October 2020

3:52 PM

Imagine loathing a country so much that you take a seat in its parliament.

Step forward Lidia Thorpe, Richard Di Natale’s replacement, who has formally joined the Senate on today. 

Forty-nine years after the racist pigs of the Coalition sent their first Aboriginal representative to Canberra, 22 years after the Australian Democrats and seven years after the ALP, the Greens will finally have an Indigenous member of the federal parliament.

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