Senate debates

Monday, 18 November 2024

Motions

Thorpe, Senator Lidia; Censure

10:09 am

Photo of Mehreen FaruqiMehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

What a disgrace Labor and the Liberals are, calling for Senator Thorpe to be censured for telling the truth about invasion, dispossession and the genocide of First Nations people in this country. That is just contemptible. I thought we still lived in a democracy. We have a right to protest. We have a right to dissent. We have a right to disrupt. That's what Senator Thorpe did. But you want to police black women. You want to police the way we, black and brown people, disrupt and dissent. You want us to be boxed into what a white supremacist system sees as the right way to protest and dissent.

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