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Lidia Thorpe is not First Nations, she's just a pretender. · The Slippery Slope

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  for next week at the moment so I apologize for not having Tom
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  something next week. So let's get into today's
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  today's episode. So on the 23rd of June of this
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  year, I didn't episode, which was titled.
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  Senator Lydia Thorpe should be dismissed.
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  So this episode was also about this, Senator Olivia Thorpe, who
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  says that Australian Parliament has no permission to be here and
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  her plans to infiltrate it. The sir, the the senator said,
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  our entry into the colonial project was due to her
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  aspirations to renewed the nation and be a spokesman a
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  spokesperson to First Nations Now listen, there is more
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  students, more information coming out about Senator Lydia
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  Thorpe, okay? She claims to be a First Nations
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  and a an Australian indigenous person.
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  I think that I don't think she's an Australian did indigenous
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  person. I think she should stop claiming
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  that she is. Because I think she only claims
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  this indigenous part of her being, when it suits her, if it
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  makes her look good in her, in your, in front of the East of
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  the politicians that's when she claims that.
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  She is an indigenous person. It's only to make you look good
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  other than that other than that every other time whenever she's
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  getting about in in her everyday life she is just a foul mouth
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  despicable narcissistic an abusive human being so stop
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  pretending stop claiming that you're an indigenous person.
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  Because you bring nothing. She brings nothing but
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  embarrassments to First Nations people in Australia.
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  That's my opinion. It might sound a little harsh
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  but Hey, listen, just just hold on with me, there's another
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  story this come out and I'll read a read a couple of
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  different, a couple of different Stories.
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  The first one, which came from the said Sydney Morning, Herald
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  is headline band concedes. He should have acknowledged
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  complained about thought so greens leader, Adam bandt has
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  conceded, he should have responded to a written complaint
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  sent to him by an Aboriginal Elder who alleged she was made
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  physically ill. When she was verbally abused by
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  Senator Lydia Thorpe. During a meeting in Parliament
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  House. Last year, being its handling
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  of, the incident has come under scrutiny this week, after the
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  Sydney Morning, Herald and the age revealed, the complaint by
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  Geraldine Atkinson who goes by, Auntie Geraldine Atkinson had
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  gone unanswered for more than a year.
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  And that Thorpe's, former Chief of Staff had attempted to raise
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  concerns with the party leadership, about the Senators,
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  conduct at the time, Spokesman for bent confirmed on Wednesday
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  that he had been contacted Atkinson.
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  Admitting he should have acknowledged the written
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  complaint, she sent to him in June 20 21, but he stopped short
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  of apologizing for the way in which he managed the issue.
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  Adam bandt MP has written to Geraldine Atkinson co-chair of
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  the first people's assembly of Victoria acknowledging that he
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  should have replied to the correspondence from June of last
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  year. The spokesman said.
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  Now, listen, that's just that part about about Adam bands and
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  what they have said. However, from this other article
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  from the Sydney Morning Herald again, this is titled leaked
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  email reveals green staffer scared and in shock after Lydia,
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  Thorpe's truly awful. Outburst.
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  This is written by Lisa visentin, so on September 27 of
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  this year. So it says Marine, Senator Lydia
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  Thorpe's, former Chief of Staff said he was scared and appalled
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  by her Outburst. In a meeting with two
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  indigenous, Community leaders at Parliament House.
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  Last year, describing her behavior that says in describing
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  Lydia thoughts, Behavior among the most unprofessional conduct
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  he has ever witnessed. So the claims by Thorpe's X top
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  adviser reinforce the account of the meeting by Aboriginal Elder
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  Auntie Geraldine. The Atkinson who is aged in her
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  70s who has previously alleged the tirade of abuse level, that
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  her, by the senator distressed her so much that she sought
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  medical attention from the Parliamentary nurse.
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  So, David mageia canals announce, if I apologize, if I'm
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  not pronouncing that properly Anyway said, David Majora,
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  canals, who resigned from Thorpe's office in June
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  accompanied the senator too. Meeting with a Kansan and Marcus
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  Stewart, the co-chairs of the first people's assembly of
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  Victoria and their policy advisor.
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  Nicole Schlessinger to discuss the state's treaty process in
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  the committee room in Parliament House Canberra on June twenty.
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  Second twenty, Twenty-One his account of what happened and his
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  efforts to inform the greens leadership of Thorpe's.
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  Appalling conduct a detailed in an apology letter email.
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  Sent from his Parliament House address to act in sin and
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  Stewart in June one year after the meeting as one of his final
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  acts before leaving the Senator's office in the email, a
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  copy of, which has been obtained by the Sydney Morning, Herald
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  and the age mageia. Canals, said he still did not
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  know why Thorpe had agreed to the meeting only to proceed to
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  behave so badly. So since that meeting This is
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  what he says, since that meeting, I have wanted to reach
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  out to you to apologize, because the conduct that I witnessed at
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  that meeting was by far. One of the most unprofessional
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  displays I have ever seen. Not just during the length of my
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  career, but in my life the email said some agile, canals
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  described his shock at have a meeting, went so wrong and so
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  quickly and said his biggest regret was not ending the
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  meeting sooner. He said the Ended the meeting,
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  my getting a colleague to call the rooms phone.
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  I hope that you can understand that I was scared and in shock
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  because I have never ever been in that situation at work.
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  He wrote eventually, I did discreetly text my colleagues to
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  ask one of them to ring the committee room, we are in, I
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  then pretended, that it was an urgent phone, call that we
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  needed to leave there for cutting the meeting short, the
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  claims by admin Jaya, canals bet Forbes.
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  Have you follow a period of scrutiny on Parliament House,
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  Parliament House has workplace culture, Majora, canals
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  described, how he wanted the Earth to swallow me whole, as he
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  and thought exited the meeting room.
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  Into a public part of the parliament of Parliament House,
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  where a class of ascott excited school children were waiting.
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  He said they gave an improper impromptu speech welcoming the
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  children to the building and had to pretend as if Ethan was fine
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  and normal. He says, I had just witnessed
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  the most unprofessional conduct and now I was staring at about
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  30 children, who wanted to know what?
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  It's like to work at Parliament House.
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  It was truly awful. He said canals does not go into
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  detail in the email about the exact nature of thoughts
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  conduct. He declined to comment when
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  approached by via the newspaper. However, in a written complaint
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  sent to Greens leader. Adam band, following the Eating
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  Atkinson described, thoughts, conduct, as vicious and
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  personal, and abusive, and requested.
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  He takes step to ensure her complaint did not provoke
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  further retaliation in a separate.
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  Letter sent to then Senate. President Scott Ryan and
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  revealed by the age last year Atkinson said, thought,
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  criticized The prominent, bam, let family of which Atkinson is.
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  The member saying they had always tried to undermine her
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  and bring her. Her down and suggested Atkinson
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  was involved in corrupt. Aboriginal organization.
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  She says, when I tried to intervene to respond, send it to
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  Thorpe. Spoke over the top.
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  Me in a highly aggressive tone. Repeatedly.
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  Stating I am an Australian Senator, you are, in my meeting.
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  Our arrogance, is that the arrogance?
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  Now, this is why I say senator thought.
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  Is only an Australian indigenous person, the First Nations
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  person. When it suits her it is very
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  very well known and accepted that in indigenous culture.
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  In Australia, you respect, you show respect to the elders in
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  the community now. 41, she is a senator, she is working for the
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  Australian public. She is not some self-made.
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  Self-employed person. She works for Parliament.
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  She works for the public. She is paid by taxpayer money.
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  And secondly, she claims to be this indigenous person.
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  She claims to be a person of indigenous Heritage and she and
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  yet she cannot even do the most basic of cultural things and
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  that is to respect your elders. That's because she's not really
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  an indigenous. Earnest person.
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  Not when it matters. She is only a First Nations
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  person when it suits her, when it makes her look good.
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  And if it doesn't make you look good, if it doesn't work in her
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  interest well then she's just a fell mouth belligerent.
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  Arrogant individual. Who happens to be a senator.
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  I've said it before. I'll say it again, we need to
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  hold our politicians accountable and as I said, Enough on June
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  23rd, Senator Lydia, Thorpe should be dismissed.
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  She is, she is a disgrace to Parliament.
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  She is a disgrace to the Senate and her trying to speak.
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  As if she, is representing indigenous people in Australia,
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  she needs to take a hard look at herself.
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  A very hard look at herself. She is just, she is just a
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  pretender. That's my opinion.
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