Independent senator also foreshadowed abstaining from Senate vote on Indigenous voice referendum in interview with ABC
says she will lodge a complaint to the Human Rights Commission against her former party, the Australian Greens, claiming she experienced racism during her time in the organisation.
Thorpe made the claim during an interview with the ABC’s Insiders, where she also foreshadowed abstaining from a Senate vote on the Indigenous voice referendum, saying she “cannot support” the proposed consultation body, but that she also would not join the no campaign against the constitutional change.
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