Senator Lidia Thorpe slams PM for response to neo-nazi video

The independent senator has promised she won't remain silent as she fights for First Nations people in the lead up to the referendum.

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00:00 Well, this is what you wanted. You wanted to shut me down.

00:07 This building behind us is where it all began in 1901.

00:16 The racist constitution came out of this building.

00:22 It's caused nothing but pain and misery for my people in this country.

00:33 The referendum is an act of genocide against my people

00:44 and the Prime Minister knows exactly what he's doing.

00:51 He wants the fascists to come out and get me.

00:57 That's what he wants.

01:01 Because his violent force that he has sent to protect me

01:15 can't even protect me.

01:19 I refuse to protect the black sovereign woman

01:24 because the police are part of the problem in this country

01:30 and I can't ring Triple O.

01:35 I can't rely on Victoria Police after they kill my people.

01:45 So where is my support?

01:51 Where is my protection in this country?

01:55 You want to paint me as an angry black woman?

01:58 Well, you are about to see an angry black woman

02:02 because I am not hiding this time.

02:05 I've been in exile for four months.

02:09 Four months I wasn't allowed to be in my own home

02:14 because people want to kill me out there.

02:18 They don't want my voice to be heard over the next nine days.

02:24 They want to feel good about the referendum.

02:29 The referendum to assimilate our people into their constitution.

02:40 So what do they do? They send the fascists.

02:47 Only two have been arrested after two years.

02:55 Two years! I'm not waiting two years for the latest fascist violence to come at me.

03:04 I've hired my own black army

03:09 and this parliament has to pay for the black army.

03:13 Not the army that continues to violate black women and black men in this country.

03:21 I don't trust your army. I only trust my own.

03:31 So I'm not hiding for the next nine days.

03:36 You're going to hear from me and you are going to see me

03:40 and I am not scared.

03:42 I am ready to fight for exactly what I went into parliament for

03:47 and that is my country, my people

03:53 and I won't stop.

03:56 And I'm not scared.

03:59 So come at me!

04:01 [cheering]

04:05 [cheering]

04:06 [BLANK_AUDIO]