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After what Lidia Thorpe did yesterday to the King and Queen Consort and her previous incidents, she should be forced to resign from Parliament. She cannot be behaving like that as an elected official and quite frankly I don’t think anyone in their right mind would think she is fit for office.
@Tbh I’m in two minds yea she is but on the other hand she keeps a vote away from labor and the greens til at least 2028. She’s just after attention. Unfortunately until she’s convicted of a crime that carries at least 1 year in prison or is declared bankrupt no-one can.
@ Nether Portal
A few weeks ago Lidia Thorpe was kicked out of parliament for chanting “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” while Penny Wong was speaking
I see some people only want freedom of speech when it’s speech they agree with. Nothing Lidia Thorpe said was an incitement to violence or persecution.
The Greens can jettison some of their negative perceptions onto her. She actually quit because she wasn’t willing to support incremental improvements – a claim unfairly thrown at Greens. Most of her campaigning has been on non material, student politics and identity politics type issues while Greens have campaigned more on issues like housing and cost of living. Palestine threw this off – nearly a full year of overwhelming Greens focus on an international relations issue that’s a hallmark of campus socialism. But I suspect as the election gets closer, Thorpe will still be talking about colonialism, while the Greens will talk about putting dental into Medicare. It’s helpful to the Greens to have political forces like Victorian Socialists distinctly to their left.
Agree BNJ and NP, Lydia Thorpe is behaving in a somewhat juvenile manner by engaging with these sort of stunts. It is a bad look for her, but I also agree with Wilson that unless she also committed violent acts or criminal behaviour then just participating in foolish stunts is not grounds on its own to be expelled from parliament.
@Wilson she made a post about beheading the King. If she did the same with the US President even if it was a joke she would be investigated by the Secret Service. It happened to Eminem when he criticised Donald Trump in a rap despite having no intention of hurting him. It happened to Elon Musk because of a tweet he made about the assassination of Trump and why it never happens to Democrats, and while Elon Musk is insane he doesn’t have any intention of assassinating Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
In America anyone who says anything they don’t like about the President will get investigated. This is an Australian elected official talking about murdering the Head of State. Why is she not being investigated? Just because she’s a politician?
Nether Portal, so you’re for authoritarianism and against freedom of speech?
Lidia Thorpe won’t be running for re-election. She still has 3 and a bit years left.
@Blue Not John, I agree your sentiments about identity politics and student politics and the differences between her and the Greens. She exhibits the sort of stuff you see on uni campuses.
What I find annoying is the amount of mainstream media and social media exposure given to her. She actually got publicity for free. The tirade didn’t even last a minute or a tiny fraction of the event but it was the leading story and made waves. There was little focus on the King’s speech or reception itself.
@Wilson no absolutely not, but I do believe there is a line in the sand for what’s considered free speech and calling for violence against someone is not free speech. It wasn’t even a joke and she’s an elected official who gets a massive salary and her stunts cost taxpayer money. Should she ever leave Australia she should be pulled up by Border Security and investigated just like any normal citizen would be for such comments.
@ NP
What is your view about her interupting Penny Wong as i stated above?
So you are for authoritarianism, Nether Portal.
I think it’s also quite silly and infantilising for people to compare a grown Aboriginal woman who is angry at the centuries of suffering of her people to student politics, where people usually do not have to live through the trauma of the cause they’re advocating for. It’s reductive and a bad comparison.
Alright this is off topic. Enough.