Lidia Thorpe, the UN Declaration and the mob out there

Lidia Thorpe, the UN Declaration and the mob out there

How has the defeat of the Voice referendum affected public debate about Indigenous affairs? One way to answer this question is to look at what’s been said since October 2023 by Indigenous leaders for whom the referendum vote was a victory rather than a defeat: Senator Lidia Thorpe for example. In the Senate in December that year, Thorpe gloated about the No campaign’s triumph, referring to “this year’s referendum for constitutional recognition —…