BREAKING: Greens Senator SenatorThorpe is splitting from the party after a long-running dispute over the Voice to Parliament referendum and moving to the crossbench.
“It has become clear to me I can’t do that from within the Greens,” she said at a press conference. “Now I will be able to speak feely on all issues from the sovereign perspective without being constrained by portfolios and agreed party positions.”
Thorpe said she understood that Greens MPs and many rank-and-file members were pro-Voice. But she said this was at odds with the majority position of her Indigenous activist base. The controversial senator, who has held the party’s First Nations portfolio until now, has repeatedly criticised the Voice, stepping up her criticism in recent weeks and paving a way for a split with her partyroom colleagues.
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