Nobody Wants Lidia for a Neighbour

Anyone who says you can’t pick your family has never met an ‘Aboriginal’ box-ticker. From out of thin air, these pasty-white wannabes are able to conjure an imaginary family of ‘Aboriginal ancestors’, guaranteeing a lifetime of unfettered access to welfare, promotions and sundry ‘indigenous’ benefits. Not to mention the golden ticket of progressive politics: an unearned sense of permanent victimhood.

But you can not only pick your family, these days, you can also pick your neighbours. And in the case of box-ticker extraordinaire, the repulsive Lidia Thorpe, not even her fellow fringe-lefties on the ‘Indigenous’ gravy train want to be her neighbour.

Greens First Nations spokeswoman Dorinda Cox has moved parliamentary offices to distance herself from former party colleague Lidia Thorpe, saying she needed to relocate to ensure a safe workplace.

Cox and Thorpe once had offices about 20 metres apart on the same Senate corridor, separated only by a mail room.

The Greens senator decided to request the shift to the opposite end of the sprawling parliamentary building’s west wing after raising concerns in June with Senate president Sue Lines and the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service about Thorpe’s behaviour.

Cox is far from the only person to want to put as much distance between themselves and Lidia Thorpe as possible. Thorpe has been thrown out strip clubs, booed out of Pride Parades and driven elderly Aboriginal elders to seek medical attention.

She is, as we say in Australia, quite the piece of work.

Victorian Labor senator Jana Stewart, who is also Indigenous, confirmed she was aware of the reasons for Cox’s office move and had concerns about heckling in the chamber.

“Our parliament should set the standard for workplace behaviour and when it falls short, it’s a real shame. It’s on all of us to meet the standard and that includes Senator Thorpe,” she said […]

As recently as Tuesday evening, Thorpe heckled Cox in the Senate chamber after acting Senate president Louise Pratt allowed Cox to speak before Thorpe on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Because if Thorpe has one moral compass, it’s about making everything about her.

This masthead has spoken to senators from across the political spectrum who asked not to be named so they could speak freely. They confirmed that in recent months Thorpe has had disagreements with senators or heckled them in the chamber, including Cox, Labor senator Jana Stewart and One Nation senator Pauline Hanson.

Thorpe has previously clashed publicly with Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie, calling her a racist in June this year for supporting income management. In December 2021, Thorpe apologised after telling Liberal senator Hollie Hughes during a heated Senate debate that “at least I keep my legs shut”.

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It should be no surprise to anyone that Thorpe gutter-crawled into parliament in the first place on the Greens ticket.

From self-confessed shoplifters to accused rapists, bestiality promoters and antisemites, the Greens sure do pick ’em.