Greens senator Lidia Thorpe has resigned as the party’s deputy leader in the Senate, following revelations by the ABC that she was briefly in an undisclosed relationship with an ex-bikie boss last year while on parliament's law enforcement committee.
The ABC revealed earlier today that Senator ThorpeSenator Thorpe acknowledged she did not disclose the relationship to Mr Bandt.
He said Senator Thorpe should have disclosed her connection to Mr Martin and the failure to do so showed a "significant lack of judgement".
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