Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This morning Labor and the Libs teamed up to pass a shameful censure motion against truth-telling. I tell you right now that I wear the censure motion as a badge of honour, because the protest against the colonising king was exactly what I wanted to do, and that was to bring the whole world's attention to the plight of my people in this country. There have been 600 deaths in custody—you don't care. This government don't care. That government didn't care. There are 24,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. None of this mob care. Suicide rates—they don't care. Incarceration rates—they don't care. Destruction of country and water—they don't care. So I will continue to call out the king coloniser and any supporter that wants to shut me down for speaking truth to power.

The international solidarity has been incredible—thousands and thousands of people reaching out, even the so-called insignificant old white man who rang me this morning and said, 'It is just ridiculous what they are doing to you, Senator Thorpe.' This is about justice. This is about an ongoing genocide that everyone in here who makes the decisions and who sets the racist policy that we have to live under is complicit in. I have created a whirlwind internationally. Shame on this colony for continuing this sophistication of genocide against my people! I will continue to do it, and I will stand in solidarity with every other Indigenous people around the globe.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Thorpe. Your time has expired.

Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

So fuck the colony!

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator Thorpe!

Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I withdraw.