This is Lidia Alma Thorpe, Senator for the Greens in Victoria State, Australia ....
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| Lidia Thorpe - Australian Green Senator |
I wouldn't have guessed this from looking at her, but she states that her heritage is of DjabWurrung, Gunnai, and Gunditjmara first Australian nation descent, and that she left school at 14 because she experienced racism as an 'Aboriginal girl' being called a 'Chico baby, coon, Abo'.
