Senator Lidia Thorpe calls on Indigenous Australians to ‘decolonise’ by planting Aboriginal flags and charging white people rent
The Senator has urged Indigenous Australians to plant the Aboriginal flag on land and make white people pay to visit to ‘assert sovereignty’ over Australia | LISTEN
Turncoat senator Lidia Thorpe has urged Indigenous Australians to plant the Aboriginal flag on land and make white people pay to visit, to “assert sovereignty’’ over Australia.
The former Greens senator, who defected to sit as an Independent, spoke of her ambition to run Blak Sovereign candidates in every state and territory, and outlined her provocative plans to “f..k the colony” in a closed-door address to an anti-racism symposium organised by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane.
“We have to organise and strategise and take over our land like they did,’’ the Victorian senator said to applause from the audience. “We need to start putting our own flags into our own land and f--k the colony.’’
Hailing the academic conference as a “safe space’’, Senator Thorpe ridiculed “white Karen’’ supporters of the voice referendum, claimed that police were launching daily raids on Nazis threatening to kill her, and declared that her ancestors had spoken through her to “tell off’’ King Charles.
“The death threats are every day, every day an AFP (Australian Federal Police) officer is raiding some Nazi that wants to kill me,’’ she said.
Senator Thorpe outlined her plan to seek re-election when her term expires in three years – and then hand her seat to the Blak Sovereign movement by creating a casual vacancy in the Senate.
“I have three years left but I’m gonna run again,’’ she said in a recording of her speech to the QUT academic symposium on January 23, obtained by The Australian on Tuesday.
“The media don’t know that. I don’t want be there for another six years.
“The only reason I’m going to run again is to win it back for the Blak Sovereign movement and then I’m gonna hand it to the next generation.’’
Senator Thorpe said Blak Sovereign candidates could win the “bottom senate seat everywhere … we can have (the) balance of power.’’
Senator Thorpe, who earns a base salary of $233,660, told the symposium how much she hates going to work in Parliament House.
“It is a very violent workplace that I have to go to, every parliament sitting,’’ she said.
“I hate going there, I hate dealing with the people I’ve got to deal with, but I have to do it for my people and for all our ancestors that are watching down on us.’’
Senator Thorpe blamed her ancestors for her heckling of King Charles during his visit to Australia last year, when she shouted “You are not my king’’ and “f--k the colony’’, after he addressed the Great Hall of Parliament last October.
“It was my ancestors that threw me out into the middle there and told that king off, it was my ancestors that done that,’’ she said.
“I am just the body, I am just the mechanism.’’
Senator Thorpe called on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to “put the flag in’’ to assert sovereignty over Australian land.
“We have to take it into our own hands … put the flag in,’’ she said.
It was Aboriginal flag flying at a free camping site at Mystery Bay, on the NSW south coast, that gave Senator Thorpe her inspiration.
“I said, that’s an assertion of sovereignty,’’ she told her audience. “You put the mob’s name there, start getting people to sign the visitor’s book, and don’t leave, so Black Fellas don’t have to pay camping fees at Mystery Bay, (but) all the white folks have to – $40 a night.’’
Senator Thorpe boasted that she has Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s number in her phone: “He doesn’t answer my texts no more but that’s all right.’’
She said Mr Albanese had only called his failed referendum to change the Constitution to give First Nations Australians an official voice in 2023 “for the votes, to make people feel good’’.
“I had white Karens coming to me saying this is going to be really good for your people,’’ she said to laughter from the audience, using a derogatory term for opinionated middle-aged women.
“The referendum was a strategy to divide us further, to cause the racism that we see, and to stop a treaty.’’
Senator Thorpe dared Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to sue her for defamation “because I called him a racist and a violent man’’. “He can come at me for defamation,’’ she said. “I don’t own my house, I don’t own my car.’’
The parliamentary register of members’ interests shows that Senator Thorpe owns residential real estate in the Melbourne suburb of Preston, with a mortgage from an Australian bank, and has two savings accounts.
QUT vice-chancellor Margaret Sheil has appointed former Federal Court judge John Middleton to conduct an independent review into the controversial symposium by QUT’s Carumba Institute in January.
She apologised for the ‘‘hurt and offence’’ caused by a presentation at the symposium’s “great race debate’’ that depicted “Dutton’s Jew’’, after federal Education Minister Jason Clare phoned to remind her of the need to enforce the university’s code of conduct.
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