Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Australian politician who represents the Green Party. She is a senator in the federal parliament for the state of Victoria as of August 2022.
She is Victoria’s first Aboriginal senator, and she has been the Greens’ Senate deputy leader since June 2022.
Lidia Thorpe was once married to a man whose name is not yet in the public domain, however, the two later divorced.
She lives in Australia at the moment.
Meriki Onus, Thorpe’s sister, was a co-founder of the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) collective, which was a major factor behind the Australian Aboriginal Sovereignty movement.
Her uncle is activist Robbie Thorpe, who was active in some of the first campaigns for Aboriginal Australian self-determination, as well as the Pay The Rent movement.
Thorpe has three children and is a “loving grandmother of four grandkids” as of April 2022.
Thorpe previously served in the Victorian Parliament. She became the first Aboriginal woman elected to the state legislature after winning the Northcote state by-election on November 18, 2017, and served as a member of the Northcote division in the Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2018.
Thorpe has drawn criticism for her comments against Australia’s monarchy, emblem, and parliament.
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