CONTROVERSIAL Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe should face motions to remove her from Parliament over her “appalling” behaviour toward King Charles, says Member for Mallee Anne Webster.
The “incensed” MP said she was “ropable” at Senator Thorpe’s conduct.
“I told her in the Great Hall that she is a disgrace to the Parliament,” Dr Webster said.
“It is important to note that the Victorian Greens put Senator Thorpe in the Senate, and that their leader endorsed her behaviour on Monday.”
Waiting until speeches in the Great Hall of Parliament House finished on Monday, Senator Thorpe addressed the King, yelling that she did not accept his sovereignty.
“You committed genocide against our people; give us our land back; give us back what you stole from us … we want a treaty in this country,” she shouted, before being escorted out.
Dr Webster said Australia’s sovereignty and constitution “are under constant threat from the anti-Australian Greens who are sowing constant division in our community”.
“The Greens are a protest party who represent narrow, fringe identity politics groups determined to tear down our democracy,” she said.
Dr Webster said she encouraged Coalition colleagues to explore using both the “full force of the law” and the Constitution to examine how Senator Thorpe could be removed from Parliament.
“We cannot allow her behaviour towards Their Majesties, our Constitution and our heritage to go unchecked,” she said.
“Doing nothing … is not an option.
“The PM must move a censure motion in the House and the government leadership team needs to do the same in the Senate against Senator Thorpe, and explore avenues for her removal from the Parliament.”
“Current and future parliamentarians, those appointed to civic office and our school students need to know that our national leaders will not tolerate such brazen and arguably seditious behaviour.
“The Greens, who for bizarre reasons seem to appeal to younger generations, need to be held accountable for their anti-Australian policy positions as an educational exercise. They are not about the environment, they are about ceding our sovereignty to elements other than the Crown and the Australian people.
Speaking on Tuesday, Senator Thorpe said her repeated written requests for a meeting and a “respectful conversation” with the monarch had been ignored every time.
“That wasn’t afforded to me, so I did that for my people. I did that for my grandmother, and I wanted the world to know that we need a treaty here and we want an end to this ongoing war against first peoples in this country,” she told ABC radio.
“I don’t subscribe to assimilating myself into the colonial structure.”
The Greens Party was contacted for comment.
