Hello! I’m Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, mother and businesswoman. If elected as your Northcote MP, I’ll be the first Aboriginal woman in the Parliament of Victoria. Northcote is one of the most progressive electorates in Australia. I love our local area — I grew up here and my children attended our local schools. I'd love you to join me on this journey. Let's win this! | Senator Lidia Thorpe

'I never gave up believing that better days were possible': Lidia Thorpe delivers powerful maiden speech and renews calls for Treaty. | NITV

21K views · 610 reactions | 'It's time to stop looking away': Lidia Thorpe, Victoria's first Indigenous representative to the Senate, powerful maiden speech renewed the call for a treaty with Indigenous Australians | SBS News | Facebook

‘I’m not going anywhere’: Greens senator Lidia Thorpe addressed the Senate chamber over her an undisclosed relationship with a former bikie leader while she was sitting on a law enforcement committee. She says all confidential information she received was treated ‘in confidence’, and accepts she should have disclosed the relationship to Greens leader Adam Bandt. | ABC News

Senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed the government’s response to the Boorloo Invasion Day attack, saying it exposes the “rise of hate” against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. She says the alleged terrorist comes from the same extreme racist elements targeting First Nations communities nationwide. Senator Thorpe criticised the Prime Minister for remaining silent, calling it “incredibly painful” for Noongar people and other Indigenous Australians. She also raised concerns that ASIO had

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