Victorian Greens senator Lidia Thorpe accuses Virgin Australia staff of racially profiling her while she waited to board a plane at Canberra Airport late last year.
Victorian Greens senator Lidia Thorpe has accused Virgin Australia staff of racially profiling her while she waited to board a plane at Canberra Airport late last year.Senator Thorpe says she was a victim of racial profiling and that she "[doesn't] think this would have happened to a white woman"
Senator Thorpe, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman and the first Aboriginal senator from Victoria, said she was ignored by Virgin Australia staff. "I've never had security called on me in my whole life, and when I saw security coming at me, I just grabbed my bags and walked away," she said. The airline said that on the day Senator Thorpe attempted to board their plane, they were experiencing "major disruptions" due to check-in delays caused by an airport baggage system malfunction.
Senator Thorpe spoke about her experience with the airline while promoting a new service for First Nations people to report incidents of racism.is an online reporting system that aims to illustrate the true nature of racism and how it is experienced across Australia.
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