A month after she quit the Greens, independent Senator Lidia Thorpe says she filed a complaint to the parliament’s workplace support services last year.
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has alleged that she quit the Greens because she was bullied and undermined by several of her party room colleagues, saying she lodged a written complaint about her treatment with leader Adam Bandt and the parliament’s workplace misconduct support service last year.
But in an interview on Thursday that ends the understanding between Thorpe and Bandt not to discuss the circumstances around her exit, Thorpe said differences over the referendum were not the key reason for her departure, alleging that she quit because a number of Greens senators had “caused a lot of harm” to her.
The crossbench senator said she had not heard back from the support service since lodging the complaint.Credit:A spokesperson for Bandt confirmed the leader was aware of Thorpe’s complaints, but rejected her assertions they constituted bullying. Bandt’s spokesperson confirmed he and Thorpe remained friends and had a working relationship.
In a report tabled in the Senate on Thursday, the privileges committee cleared her of contempt over allegations she failed to disclose the relationship despite sitting on a parliamentary law enforcement committee.“I was told to say I ‘dated’ [him]. I really fought hard to not say that because it’s not true,” Thorpe said.
Thorpe said she had not spoken to Bandt since her remarks in the Senate, but insisted their relationship had not broken down.”I have a lot of good relationships within the Greens and I would say most of the Greens senators, but there’s a couple of people that I’ll refuse to communicate with from now on.“She said she intended to stand by her exit agreement with the Greens to vote with them on climate-related bills, clarifying that this did not extend to environment or water issues.
that none of her fellow Greens MPs, including another Indigenous senator, meet Indigenous community members about the Voice to parliament.
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