Well, it only took them over three days, but finally the ABC has run one — count it! One! — piece on Lidia Thorpe’s strip club scrag fight. And, just as I joked, they only did it once they’d figured out a way to make her the victim.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described the actions of senator Lidia Thorpe outside a Melbourne strip club last weekend as “clearly unacceptable”, and urged her to seek support for “obvious” health issues.
“I hope that Lidia gets some support,” he told the Super Radio Network.
ABC Australia
See? Poor Lidia’s unwell. It’s not her fault.
And that’s just where the ABC is going to let the matter rest. To date, that’s been their one and only coverage of the whole matter.
Not, mind you, that Lidia is taking aspersions on her mental health lying down, you racists. It’s probably something to do with colonisation.
The independent senator Lidia Thorpe has hit back at Anthony Albanese’s suggestions that health issues could be behind her early-morning altercation outside a Melbourne strip club, claiming the prime minister and her detractors are “taking their info from rightwing media” […]
“My health is not for him to comment. Very inappropriate,” she said. “It’s an attempt to demonise me based on misinformation,” Thorpe told Guardian Australia.
“Nothing new really. Another day in the colony.
Guardian Australia
The ABC’s careful silence on Thorpe’s racist, cat-fighting tirade is speaking volumes about the biases of Australia’s Government-funded Media. By contrast, the ABC has reported at least fourteen times on Mark Latham’s “homophobic tweet” scandal.
Even The Guardian brought itself to run two whole stories on Thorpe’s appalling behaviour. Heck, the bastion of right-on Melbourne leftism, The Age, not only managed to mention the story four times, but has been doing some actual investigative reporting.
Controversial independent senator Lidia Thorpe has been on high rotation in the news all week after her expletive-laden rant at a group of men outside Brunswick strip club Maxine’s early on Sunday morning.
But CBD has worried that the other members of the Thorpe party that night have been denied the credit they deserve for their role in the incident.
Widely aired footage shows Victoria’s NAIDOC committee chair, Stacie Piper, in the thick of the action alongside Thorpe, playing a part in the torrent of abuse unleashed by the senator in front of the venue after closing time.
So, that’s quite a “Voice” these two “Aboriginal” women have (although, to her somewhat credit, Piper at least might actually be legitimately mistaken for Aboriginal on a dark Melbourne Saturday night). All thanks to the taxpayer, of course.
The NAIDOC committee, which is funded to the tune of $700,000 to $800,000 annually through the Department of Premier and Cabinet, did not respond to CBD’s request for comment.
Neither the department nor First Nations Minister Gabrielle Williams wanted to go anywhere near the matter either on Wednesday, and we got no response to our attempts to contact Piper for comment.
The Age
Roll in Thorpe’s parliamentary salary, and we’re in the ballpark of a million in taxpayer dollars funding this sort of trash.
Not to mention the billion a year we pay for the ABC’s silence.
