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Senator Lidia Thorpe protests at reception for King Charles
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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10/22/2024
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has suggested independent senator Lidia Thorpe should resign after shouting at the King and Queen during their royal reception at parliament house yesterday.
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What a moment it was yesterday at the Great Hall here in Parliament House. King Charles
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finished his speech and Independent Senator Lydia Thorpe got up and launched that protest
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action. So far, reactions to it have been varied. We've seen some social media users
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praising Lydia Thorpe as brave, even the leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell, putting
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out a tweet saying she stands in solidarity with the Independent Senator. However, it's
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probably fair to say that the majority of reaction has been condemnation. We've seen
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on the front page of the Australian newspaper this morning, Marcia Langdon, saying that
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it was an embarrassing and shameful incident. We've seen government ministers from the Albanese
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government broadly labelling the action inappropriate. And opposition leader Peter Dutton saying
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that this was an act of self-promotion, going so far this morning as to suggest that it
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could be appropriate that Lydia Thorpe resign. Let's have a look at what Peter Dutton said
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and then what Lydia Thorpe said in response.
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I think people need to express themselves respectfully and sometimes people make it
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all about themselves and I think that's what yesterday was. It didn't advance anyone's
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cause and in fact there are many Indigenous leaders overnight who have condemned the actions
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and I don't intend to add to the self-promotion that she seeks.
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I really don't care what Dutton says. I'm in this job for another three and a half years
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and I'm not looking to be re-elected. I'm looking to get justice for my people.
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What Lydia Thorpe's protest was about, it was about treaty. It's a long-held position
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that she has. She would like to see a treaty. She famously left the Greens when the Voice
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to Parliament proposal referendum was before the Australian people because she was not
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in support of that. She's called for a treaty for a long time and basically that's what
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she was doing yesterday in Parliament House in this very public protest. Whether or not
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this is going to move that course forward, it's impossible to say, but what is clear
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is that she has got that issue into the media here and also internationally in the BBC,
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also the New York Times, covering this action from Lydia Thorpe. So Gemma, an unplanned
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moment in an otherwise pretty stage-managed visit from the Royals which continues today.
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