Media Releases
Labor must listen to Coroner, health experts on Census.
September 05, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe is calling on the federal government to commit to including questions on gender identity and sex characteristics in the 2026 Australian Census, highlighting recent findings made by the Victorian Coroner into the suicide deaths of five young transgender women.
Read MoreLidia Thorpe says federal action needed, after second Aboriginal child death in WA youth prison.
August 30, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe is calling for urgent federal intervention into the child prison system, after a 17 year old boy died overnight in Banksia Hill youth detention centre in Western Australia.
Read MoreForever chemicals: Senator Thorpe secures parliamentary inquiry into PFAS, with select committee to be established
August 22, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe has successfully negotiated the establishment of a Select Committee to inquire into the health and environmental impacts of PFAS chemicals, following discussions with the Albanese government.
Read More‘Ecocidal disaster’: Senator Thorpe calls for Middle Arm hub to be scrapped as committee report fails to make recommendations
August 21, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe has reiterated her calls for Darwin Middle Arm industrial hub to be scrapped, following the release of a senate inquiry report, which she says clearly illustrates there is no consent from Larrakia People for the project to proceed.
Read More‘Blood on his hands’: Senator Thorpe slams Shorten’s NDIS ‘dirty deal’
August 21, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe has echoed the concerns of the First People’s Disability Network about NDIS legislation set to pass the House of Representatives today, after Labor and the Coalition reached an agreement that Thorpe has labelled a ‘dirty deal’.
Read MoreSenator Thorpe backs community legal sector's call for emergency funding, as campaign kicks off in Canberra
August 20, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe has echoed the concerns of frontline community legal centre workers, saying that without urgent funding from Labor, thousands more vulnerable people will be turned away from life-saving legal assistance.
Read MoreThorpe condemns Allan backflip on youth justice, calls for national approach to reform
August 13, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe has condemned the Victorian Labor government’s backflip on key youth justice reforms, including their commitment to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 by 2027.
Read MoreSenator Thorpe says Labor must ban gambling ads if they are serious about addressing disadvantage for First Peoples
August 12, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe has urged the Albanese government to follow through and implement a total ban on gambling advertising, pointing out that anything less would contradict Labor’s stated commitment to closing the gap.
Read MoreThorpe says Albanese gaslighting the nation over Makarrata commission, says Labor’s promise is clearly recorded
August 09, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, accusing him of breaking an election promise for a Makarrata Truth-Telling Commission, and of gaslighting the nation by claiming Labor had never proposed a formal commission for truth telling.
Read MoreThorpe calls for national action, after three custody deaths in the last week, and fresh allegations of child abuse
August 08, 2024
Senator Lidia Thorpe has called for a stronger federal framework to oversee prisons and policing after three people are reported to have died in custody in just the last week, and fresh revelations of child abuse in custodial settings have been aired.
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