‘You are in my meeting’: Greens senator accused of verbal abuse of Indigenous elder

An Aboriginal elder says a blast of verbal abuse from Greens senator Lidia Thorpe during a meeting at Parliament House left her physically ill, shaken and requiring medical attention. First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria co-chair Aunty Geraldine Atkinson is seeking a formal apology from Senator Thorpe – an Indigenous senator in her first term – for her conduct during a meeting to discuss Victoria’s treaty process at Parliament House in Canberra last Tuesday.