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MEDIA RELEASE | Thorpe should be investigated over strip club incident

Former Greens senator Lidia Thorpe should be investigated by Victoria police for remarks she made to others outside a Brunswick strip club over the weekend.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said Senator Thorpe’s language, captured on camera and published by news outlets, might be considered a threat under Victorian law.

“I think Victoria police should be carefully examining that footage to determine if Senator Thorpe has broken the law,” Senator Hanson said. “The Australian Human Rights Commission might also consider examining the footage for possible breaches of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. I think the people subjected to her abuse on the weekend should come forward and see that she is held accountable, because the Senate has shown it’s too gutless to do so.

“No one – least of all an elected representative of the people – is above the law and I think many Australians would be appalled at a senator abusing her privilege like this. While Senator Thorpe may not recognise the law or think other Australians belong here the fact is that we all share the public space, even if it’s a footpath outside a Brunswick strip club at 3am on a Sunday morning, and we have a right to be in it without being racially abused.”

Senator Hanson said Victorians needed to ask themselves if Senator Thorpe was an appropriate representative.

“Many Victorians would be asking if Senator Thorpe had any intentions of fairly representing them in Canberra given her obvious contempt for Parliament and for those Australians who do not share her Aboriginal heritage, and even her contempt for those who do share Aboriginal her heritage but not her views,” she said.

“That contempt is on full display in this footage and has been during incidents in which she has verbally attacked Aboriginal elders, or protested at public events, and even when she has spoken on the floor of the Senate.

“Senator Thorpe’s behaviour is setting the benchmark for the black nationalism activists who will populate the indigenous voice to Parliament if the referendum is successful later this year. The prospect of our enshrining such voices in our Constitution is alarming.”

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