Today, diminutive Greens leader Adam Bandt finally acted against firebrand Victorian senator, Lidia Thorpe.
Bandt punted Thorpe from the Senate deputy leadership of her parliamentary party because she failed to disclose a relationship with a former bikie gang leader while sitting on a parliamentary committee covering law and justice.
Rightly so. Thorpe kept quiet about a conflict of interest that compromised her participation in that committee’s important work.
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