Media Releases
Enough excuses: Albanese must act to stop abuse of kids in prison
September 16, 2025
Senator Lidia Thorpe is joining calls for the Albanese Government to legislate minimum national standards to protect children in the criminal legal system, after new legal advice confirmed the Commonwealth has constitutional power to do so.
Read MoreSenator Thorpe responds to Victoria's Treaty legislation tabling today
September 09, 2025
Senator Thorpe has provided a response to Victoria's Treaty legislation being tabled today.
Read MoreViolent Nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty should be investigated as a hate crime
September 01, 2025
On Sunday afternoon, Camp Sovereignty — a sacred place maintained by First Peoples — was violently attacked by around 40 black-clad neo-Nazis armed with pipes, poles and branches. Video of the attack appears to show known neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell among them.
Read MoreMcCarthy must flex federal powers at meeting with nation’s Attorneys-General
August 15, 2025
Senator Lidia Thorpe is calling on Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, to ramp up pressure on states and territories to reduce incarceration and child removal rates as she meets with the country’s Attorneys-General today.
Read More‘Beads and trinkets’: Thorpe responds to PM’s Garma appearance
August 02, 2025
Senator Thorpe has responded to Prime Minister Albanese’s policy announcement ahead of his address to Garma festival, saying he has offered nothing meaningful for First Peoples.
Read MoreSenate backs Thorpe’s call for national action on deaths in custody
July 31, 2025
The parliament has today supported a motion from Senator Lidia Thorpe calling for urgent national action on the crisis of First Nations deaths in custody, following the preventable death of 24-year-old Kumanjayi White in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in May.
Read MoreAs deaths in custody surpass 600, Thorpe calls for funding cuts to NT police
July 29, 2025
Today, the recorded number of First Peoples who have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission has surpassed 600 — now at 602 deaths in total and seventeen this year.
Read MoreKumanjayi Walker’s inquest shows what First Peoples have known forever: that racism is killing us
July 07, 2025
Kumanjayi Walker was shot three times by Zachary Rolfe in 2019, during an attempted arrest in Yuendumu, NT. Rolfe was found not guilty in March 2022 of charges of murder and manslaughter relating to Walker’s death.
Read More‘From economy of occupation to economy of genocide’: UN report highlights role of private sector in Israel’s illegal occupation and genocide including companies operating in Australia, Thorpe calls for action
July 06, 2025
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a report into the role of the private sector in facilitating and profiting from Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. Titled “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide” (A/HRC/59/23), it investigates the economic structures and corporate...
Read More‘It’s Genocide.’ Thorpe honours the Truth-telling work of the Yoorrook Justice Commission and welcomes its historic findings.
July 02, 2025
Senator Lidia Thorpe says it is time for a national response including Truth and Treaty, and compensation for the substantiated findings of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide from the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
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