Lidia Thorpe erupted in anger after the Senate censured the rogue senator for protesting her title-calling during King Charles’ visit to Australia.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong moved a motion of censure against Ms Thorpe in the Senate on Monday morning, admitting her outburst during the King’s visit last month sought to ‘incite anger and grievance’.
‘This is part of a trend we are seeing internationally which, frankly, is not needed in Australia,’ Senator Wong told parliament on Monday.
The motion ‘condemns Senator Thorpe for his disruptive and disrespectful behavior at the Parliamentary Reception, as he shows disrespect for democratic institutions, including our parliament of which he is a member’.
Wearing a genuine fur coat, Ms Thorpe, 51, shouted that the queen was “carrying out genocide against our people” and added “colony” during King Charles and Camilla’s visit Down Under in October.
Independent senators were not in the room to hear Monday’s motion of censure, which passed 46 votes to 12, but they returned to shout ‘shame on you!’ repeatedly in his parliament.
‘Message! message! Order!’, answered speaker Sue Lines.
‘Senator Thorpe, you are broken! Senator Thorpe, come to order!’
Lidia Thorpe (pictured) is furious after the Senate slammed a rogue senator for a headline-grabbing protest during King Charles’ visit to Australia.
The independent senator was not in the room to hear the motion but he returned to shout ‘shame on you!’ repeatedly in parliament (pictured)
But Ms Thorpe, who wore a necklace with the words ‘Not My King’, continued to lash out.
‘Shame on you all!’, he screamed.
He added: ‘I’ll do it again, and I’ll do it every time!’
A motion of censure has no direct legal or constitutional consequences and is simply a way for parliament to express strong disapproval.
Before exploding in the chamber, Senator Thorpe wrote in X that ‘the censure movement shows where the main party’s priorities lie’.
‘They don’t stand with the First People of this country. They fight for justice for our people, preferring to defend a foreign king, rather than listen to the truth,’ he wrote.
Senator Thorpe said his protest before the King: ‘I will do it again, and I will do it every time!’
Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi criticized the move and called on politicians to listen to the concerns of Indigenous Australians.
‘The bubble of white privilege that engulfs this parliament is a systemic problem,’ he said.
‘That’s why we are here today, debating senator Black who is censured to tell the truth of the British crown genocide in First Nations people and tell the way he is going.’
Speaking to reporters after the move was made, Ms Thorpe said all Labor and the Coalition had achieved was to ‘give more media, more exposure’.
“If the colonial king comes again to my country, our country, then I will do it again,” he said.
‘And I will continue to do so. I will reject the occupation of this country.
‘I swear allegiance to the real rulers of this land, the First People are the true rulers.’
A motion of censure was also brought against Senator Ralph Babet, who shared a list of horrible slurs on social media last week – daring to ‘wake the clown’s ass’ to criticize him.
The Victorian senator, who was elected in 2022 as part of Billionaire Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP), shared a broadcast by misogynist influencer Andrew Tate a week ago.
‘Ni **** r me nail this one,’ Mr. Babet wrote on the social media platform X. ‘One percent.’
The senator, an unmarried former real estate agent who was born in Mauritius and now earns a basic salary of $233,000 after being the only elected UAP Senator, doubled down, daring anyone who criticized him.
‘In my house we say ph****t, re***d and ni***r. We are sick of you woke ass clown,’ he wrote.
‘Grandma cried. Write an article. Tweet about me. Nobody cares what you think.’
Senator Wong said the government moved the motion of condemnation ‘reluctantly’.
“We all know that the two senators did these actions precisely to attract attention, actions and actions designed to create a storm on social media, but do nothing to improve anyone’s life,” he said.
‘This is an act that seeks to fuel anger and grievance, actually to improve its own profile. And it’s part of a trend we’re seeing internationally, but frankly, we don’t need it in Australia.’
The motion, which ‘condemned Senator Babet for using hate speech, designed to drive division for his own political interests’, was passed without the need for a vote.
Mr. Babet was also not in the room to hear the motion.
