Thorpe’s appointment brings the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander politicians in federal parliament to five
Lidia Thorpe will be the new Greens senator for Victoria, replacing the outgoing senator and former Greens leader Richard Di Natale.
Thorpe, an Aboriginal leader, activist and Gunnai-Kurnai/Gunditjmara woman and former member for Northcote in the Victorian parliament, was elected to fill the casual vacancy after statewide ballot of Victorian Greens members.
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