The independent senator has used a National Press Club address to tell 'hard truths' to the country, advocating against a Voice to Parliament.
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe displaying tribal tattoos at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday.Senator Lidia Thorpe has called for the referendum to be cancelled in her first National Press Club address, rejecting what she called the "powerless" Voice to Parliament.
That included mass incarceration, lower life expectancy, the destruction of cultural sites, and a colonial system which oppressed and exploited First peoples "just so a handful of people can profit", she said.“Your laws, your metal bars, concrete and police stand in the way, keeping us from our mother [nature].
“It is the right to enforce our own laws, the right to economic independence, and the right to self-determine our own destiny. Our sovereignty is real.”'Peace and treaty'
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