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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Lidia thorpe says australia s voice referendum should be called off - What They Never Told You

Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman and a granddaughter of the revered Indigenous matriarch Alma Thorpe [File: Parliament of Australia via AFP]

Australian senator Lidia Thorpe has said the country’s planned referendum on an Indigenous “voice” to parliament should be called off because it is just “window dressing”.

Thorpe, who sits as an independent in the upper house and is one of Australia’s most prominent Aboriginal politicians, detailed her opposition to the proposal at the National Press Club in Sydney on Wednesday.

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