Thorpe’s defection makes life trickier for Labor

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OPINION: Lidia Thorpe’s defection has implications well beyond the Greens and the Voice.

from the Greens, Lidia Thorpe walked into her office, took off her jacket, kicked off her shoes and said: “thank God that’s f--king over”.

Thorpe, a high-profile recruit who won the Greens a Senate seat in Victoria at the election last May, has been more than a handful for Greens leader Adam Bandt. She didn’t last a year, storming out of the party on Thursday because of her unwillingness to support the Voice to parliament, putting her at odds with her 11 fellow senators and four lower house colleagues.

Thorpe said on Monday she would continue to vote with the Greens on climate policy, but that was all. The government has a big agenda coming up this year, including its second wave of industrial relations reforms. Thorpe will soon find herself in that dark place for an independent crossbencher with hardly any staff and fewer resources. She’ll have to get her head around IR and a lot more.

 

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