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Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe quits party over the Voice to Parliament

LIDIA THORPE PRESSER

Senator Lidia Thorpe announces she is resigning from the Greens and moving to the cross bench at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, February 6, 2023. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING Source: AAP / MICK TSIKAS/AAPIMAGE

Prominent Greens Senator has quit her party, in a dramatic exodus to pursue black sovereignty. Indigenous politician Lidia Thorpe has been at odds with her colleagues over the Voice to Parliament referendum. Senator Thorpe railed against a Voice to Parliament at the January 26 invasion day protest in Melbourne.


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