PERSON: Lidia Thorpe

Senator

Lidia Alma Thorpe (born 1973) is an Australian politician representing the Australian Greens. As of August 2022 she is a senator in federal parliament for the state of Victoria. She is the first Aboriginal senator from Victoria, and since June 2022, she has served as the Greens’ deputy leader in the Senate.

Thorpe has previously been a member of the Victorian Parliament. On winning the Northcote state by-election on 18 November 2017 she became the first Aboriginal woman elected to the state’s parliament, and served as the member for the division of Northcote in the Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2018.

Thorpe has been the subject of controversy for her statements regarding Australia’s monarchy, flag and parliament.

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