Lidia Thorpe
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Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Australian politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until Febru
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Thorpe at a rally in Melbourne in 2019
Thorpe being sworn into parliament in October 2020
Robbie Thorpe
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Robert Alan Thorpe is an Aboriginal Australian activist and presenter of Fire First, a program on community radio station 3CR in Melbourne.
Lidia Thorpe
…retaliate by punching "boys and the girls out," instead of which, now, she says, "I’ve learnt to use my mouth." Her first job was working with her uncle Robbie Thorpe at the Koori Information Centre at 120 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, which at that time was "a hub of Black political activity". She says that from that…
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