Lidia Thorpe says she was ‘demonised’ after raising sexual assault allegations in the Senate

Independent senator claims she faced a pile on and media only took notice when a white woman made similar allegations

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The independent senator Lidia Thorpe has said she was “demonised” after raising allegations of sexual assault in the parliament and was only taken seriously when a white woman shared her own allegations.

Thorpe noted there was a huge difference in how she was treated after making allegations about being “inappropriately touched” in a parliamentary stairwell, compared with when former the Liberal senator Amanda Stoker raised her own allegations.

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