Lidia Thorpe has not ruled out establishing a new political party,
Thorpe said that two elders had asked the government to support a “treaty convention” but it had refused because “they don’t want anything to hamper their [referendum] campaign”.
Thorpe’s decision to quit the Greens, she said, came after the party resolved last week to support the voice to parliament during a party room retreat, which Thorpe said she didn’t attend due to a death in her family. She said it was the “icing on the cake” for her departure, announced on Monday afternoon, noting the Greens’ policy of supporting truth, treaty and voice – in that order.
“There’s a policy there … [the] party room decided not to go with that Blak policy, and they can do that,” she said.
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