Lidia Thorpe tells Pauline Hanson to ‘f*** off’ after bombshell speech in Senate

Lidia Thorpe told Pauline Hanson to “f***off” on the floor of the Senate after her bombshell speech. Here’s what sparked the clash.

Lidia Thorpe told Pauline Hanson to “f*ck off” on the floor of the Senate after her bombshell speech declaring that Parliament is “not a safe place for women.”

Senator Thorpe’s office has confirmed to news.com.au that she made the comment after Senator Hanson muttered under her breath during her speech.

In remarks that were inaudible on the microphones, Senator Hanson said she told Senator Thorpe that she was herself “intimidating” to other senators.

“F*ck off Pauline,’’ Senator Thorpe replied.

Pauline Hanson watches on as Lidia Thorpe addresses the Senate about sexual assault allegations at Parliament House. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

It’s not the first time the two senators have clashed. Earlier this year Pauline Hanson urged police to investigate Senator Thorpe’s strip club melee that was caught on CCTV.

She has previously declared her unfit to sit in Parliament and complained when the seating arrangements put the two women next to each other.

“Many Victorians would be asking if Senator Thorpe had any intentions of fairly representing them in Canberra given her obvious contempt for parliament and for those Australians who do not share her Aboriginal heritage, and even her contempt for those who do share Aboriginal her heritage but not her views,” Senator Hanson said.

“That contempt is on full display in this footage and has been during incidents in which she has verbally attacked Aboriginal elders, or protested at public events, and even when she has spoken on the floor of the Senate.”

She also describedIndependent Senator Lidia Thorpe’s attempt to storm the Let Women Speak rally in Canberra as “pathetic from a senator”.

“I was disgusted with her actions of coming there to protest,” Ms Hanson told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“It is pathetic from a senator, and you know … this is her actions all the time – she’s trying to make a name for herself.”

Senator Thorpe told Hanson to ‘f*** off’. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Earlier, a tearful Senator Thorpe told Parliament that the building is “not a safe place” and that she was once propositioned in a stairwell and has been “inappropriately propositioned by powerful men.”

The former Greens Senator did not name any MPs or senators in the speech noting that she was unable to reflect on the politician’s “character” under standing orders.

Declaring that “silence is violence” she said she would not go to the police but would continue to speak out.

“Yesterday, I made remarks in relation to another senator. I then had to withdraw them because the rules of the Senate do not allow you to speak about someone’s character,’’ she said.

“So today, I will speak about my experience in Parliament. When I started, I was a new senator.

As all women that have walked the corridors of this building (know) it is not a safe place.

“You are often alone in long corridors with no windows and in stairwells hidden from view where there are no cameras.

“This was my new workplace. I experienced sexual comments and was inappropriately propositioned by powerful men.”

Senator Thorpe then claimed one man had “cornered her” in a stairwell where there were no security cameras.

“One man followed me and cornered me in a stairwell. And most of this was witnessed by staff and fellow members of parliament,’’ she said.

However, she conceded there were no witnesses to what she claimed happened next with the unidentified male.

“No one witnessed what happened in the stairwell as there are no cameras in the stairwells,’’ she said.

“There are different understandings of what amounts to sexual assault.

“What I experienced was being aggressively propositioned and inappropriately touched.”